Destiny the girl who loved rocks by William G. Bentrim, The Trailer

Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell

Scarpetta is back as the medical examiner for the state of Virginia.   I must have missed a couple of books in between.   Marino, Lucy, Benton are still in the picture but with different roles and many life changes.  A serial killer and a spy are the focus of the investigation.

This did not seem as tightly wrapped as I remember the Scarpetta books being.   I felt that some things were left open or assumed.  There was action and intrigue but I felt the characters could have been fleshed out a bit.  A good example is Lucy but it appears that some serious stuff happened in recent books that has changed things.   I like Cornwell so I’m going to have to go find the books I missed.

I recommend the book.

 

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Destiny The Girl Who Loved Dragons by William G. Bentrim, A new Trailer

The Gaylord WACS by Harriet Green Robinson

This book follows Harriet Green as she joins the WACS and goes through WWII.

This book read like a personal note that Harriet Green might have written to you the reader.  She shows the frustration of wanting to make a difference and being thwarted by her gender.   She ends up successfully going overseas and feeling like she might have made a difference.   Green shows the disparities between the way men and women were treated by the armed services.   The inclusion as a roommate of a WAC of color as Green mustered out was pointed to a positive change.

Things like the reaction she and her peers had with the death of Roosevelt were new to me.  I was unaware of that veneration.  Green demonstrated the resiliency and the ambition of women who were not willing to settle with staying in their “place”. 

I enjoyed the book. 

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The Accidental Suffragist by Galia Gichon

It’s not often I read a book that moves me.  Sure I read lots of enjoyable and entertaining books but this book is moving.  I taught history for a period of history.   Don’t get me started on the Afghan debacle and why we didn’t learn a darn thing from history but I digress.  Gichon brought to life the enormous difficulties faced by a “normal” member of society in supporting the Suffragist movement.  Privileged women faced difficulties but a factory working woman, a hundred years ago, endured far more.   Women today still face the pig-headed stubbornness of misogyny but our grandmothers faced worse.

In spite of being reasonably well read, I found my self shaking my head at working conditions a century plus 20 ago.  Gichon successfully portrayed those conditions.  In addition she showed that all men of that time were not misogynists but it appears a sad majority were.  Albert, although horribly flawed, was less so than the bulk of his peers.  

Kudos for Gichon for writing the book and doing it so well.   I’d like to take a time machine back and determine how my male relatives behaved in that time period and kick some butt if that behavior needed adjustment. 

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