Book Reading.....

[disneydream06]

I just finished up reading book No. 11.
I read Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth.
I am not sure if the book is based on the PBS series or if the series is based on the book.
It's about a young nurse who works with a group of nuns and other nurses as a midwife in the slums of London, England back in the 1950-60s.
It is a really good read, and also a very good tv series.
To think about women giving birth now, and then to look back at what things were like 60 years ago. Wow...
One of the stories she tells is about a woman who is giving birth to her 24 child. She speaks no English, her loving husband speaks no Spanish, they communicate through the children who speak both languages. The husband is a bit of an odd duck himself in that he helps take care of the kids, he does housework and cooking, and is openly loving towards his wife. Then near the end of the book she tells the story how the woman has had an accident and is pregnant with her 25th child. The woman is going into premature labor.
I felt so connected to the family through the earlier story, that I started to get choked up reading about the event then happening. Thankfully through shear determination of a mother's love, and the new antibiotics, both mother and child survive.
The one thing I haven't figured out yet, is if these stories are based in fact or if it's a book of fiction. It says memoir, so I am assuming that there is factual stories involved.
Sorry, not the best of reviews...

Grade: A

Book List 2014:

1. A Rite of Swords by Morgan Rice
2. Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
3. The Garner Files A Memoir by James Garner and Jon Winokur
4. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
5. Treatment of Choice by Mary King
6. Blue Moon by Laurel K. Hamilton
7. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors
and Stagehands at Ford's Theater by Thomas A. Bogar
8. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
9, Hitler's Alpine Headquarters by James Wilson
10. Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
11. Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth

Comments

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

It's a book of fact. I've read it and others by same woman

Also there is two seasons made by BBC that you must watch. :)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I have been watching the tv show. The new season just started last week. :)
I LOVE Chummy. :)

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

Isn't she fab! It's a great show.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I have seen the actress a couple of times on Graham Norton's show. She is a riot. :)

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

I'm with you guys, the series is the absolute best on TV right now.

I understand that Jennifer Worth and the character of nurse Cynthia Miller, the quiet and sensitive one, stayed lifelong best friends throughout their careers and afterwards until her death.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I really like Cynthia. :)
She was great in last night's episode. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Chummy is great!! We have the series over here also.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

The British know how to do TV. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

They do!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I would be lost and bored without them. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

hahaha lot of people would!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Well, I am a third of the way through my Nook book. Yippy. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... And really, you DO work too, right??

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL.......
Occasionally. :p
It's really not that impressive to be that far in this book because I have been working on it for awhile. :p
The other new book that I started, I am almost 1/4 of the way through that one. That's after two days. :p Fun quick read. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

you're a bookwurm!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Don't step on me. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*starts marching around*


:ppppppppppp

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

aaaaah stop being silly. I was stepping WAY beside you!!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Life is so scary when you crawl around on your belly. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOL** I bet!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

you did WHAT?

Finish another book???




Oh boy..

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just wish I could get a better push on my Nook book. :p
But I also started another real book that should be a fairly easy read. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...