TODAY‘S PROMPT: AT LAST by Etta James 🎶
NONFICTION - WWII
American servicemen and women, New Guinea, and WWII, are the backdrops for Lost in Shangri-La as they wait for a rescue after their plane was downed.
The rescue team arrived AT LAST.
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2/1 I understood my first joke today. I was observing the weaving of mosquito bags in the 2nd women's house. I sat next to a woman called Tadi and I asked her what she would do with the shells she earned and she said her husband would use them to buy another wife. 'I cannot make this bag fast enough,' she said. We all fell over laughing.
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐ As other Littens have commented, the connection with Margaret Mead makes it fascinating and makes me want to read some of her books. The writing is beautiful and excellent and I'm a sucker for a relatable love story. The 1930s attitudes to the people they lived with didn't bother me, because it WAS the 1930s. Recommended!
So far I'm enjoying this completely random find on Libby. I'm hoping it continues strong!
I know a lot of books have similar covers, and even the same images sometimes get recycled, but if I were Lily King or her publisher, I don‘t think I‘d be too happy about this “coincidence.”
panI chose this novel because I liked King's Writers and Lovers. This one I did not care for. The white characters were selfish and it felt like cultural misappropriation. I did finish the novel hoping it might get better, but didn't find it redeeming, even after reading it was loosely based on Margaret Mead.
pickWell, that flashing warning of reference to the Little Match Girl as I opened this was all about needed to know this was not going to end well. Ohhhh. A few (okay, maybe a flood) tears this month are a good thing, right? …Thank goodness for epilogues.
