Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle | 
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse On a Scottish Isle by Mary J. MacLeod
📖 Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (I already had a copy of this nature classic set in my home state but I just had to get this British edition with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, one of my favourite writers.)
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pickI absolutely loved this account of Mary MacLeod‘s time spent on a remote Hebridean island in the early 1970s. Her family wants a break from the hustle and bustle of city life so they move to a small croft house on the island where she serves as nurse to the community. I bought the sequel before I was halfway through because I knew that I would want to read more of her adventures and tales of the people she befriended. #roll100
I enjoyed this telling of a visiting country nurse in the Outer Hebrides. It had a good sense of place, describing the area that is intriguing to me not only in landscape but in culture. Her tales (and chapters) are pretty short and it's easily digestible. There are fun and sad tales in the book; I only wish she'd outlined how they'd renovated the croft where they lived as she had described it as dilapidated when they first moved in. #litsyAtoZ
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I haven‘t read this book but it looks like an enjoyable read!
pickA look at the life of a nurse on the small island of Papavray during the 1970s. The nurse and her family moved to the island from the London area. She writes with respect regarding the people of the small community. She details her experiences happy and sad. The writing wasn‘t polished but it was engaging.
Hopefully, my next read won‘t leave me as pessimistic.
Shout out to all my fellow nurses, DON‘T FORGET TO CARE FOR YOURSELF. It‘s not easy to do the things we do, and it‘s easy to burn out. So make sure, when you‘ve hung up your super hero scrubs; take some time to care for yourself ❤️#selfcare #nurse #nurselife #lvn #rn #np #poetry
My newest book featuring a nurse/nurses. I have yet to read this one. #occupationintitle #fallintobooks
pickFinally found some time for reading. This nonfiction was great for being able to pick up, put down with each chapter being it's own story. Kind of like a human James Harriott set in Scotland in the 70's.
Being a nurse myself, I'm always up to reading stories about nurses. Whether they are fictional or non-fictional, I always want to know how we are perceived by writers, and ourselves. #nurses
Basically destroying my kitchen as I bake ridiculous numbers of cookies. 😝 The audiobook is good though!!
pickThis was a delightful, autobiographical treatment of the author‘s time spent as a nurse on a remote Scottish island. The characters were not extremely well-developed, but were colorful and highly entertaining. After I finished this, I had an overwhelming desire to visit those Scottish islands. Google images is a wonderful thing for satisfying that kind of curiosity.
pickA book about two of my favorite things. Being a nurse and Scotland.
