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| This Week in Books, June 4th, 2017 |
| 2017-06-04 |
| Letters to Lida: World War II Told Through the Eyes, Heart, and Words of a B-29 Tail-Gunner Charlene Briggs Epigraph Books, Rhinebeck NY The author's father, David Lemal, went off to war and wrote a series of letters to his family back home where the author discovered them years later. All in all, 150 letters survived the years. In his twilight years his daughter, Charlene Briggs - adjunct professor in Environmental Science at Temple University - interviewed her father letter by letter and asked for background and/or reflection of that particular letter. Sometimes her questions betrayed her education, but for the most part she let him just talk or explain the event. Mr. Leval and his mother were prolific writers, and even though his mother's letters did not survive, one can conclude what the other side of the correspondence held. June 21, 1944 Each letter is scanned, and extras like this poem are included. This is not an action book; it is a back-and-forth between a son and his mother during extraordinary times. It isn't a continuous story either, which makes it a good book for people who have five or ten minutes here and there, then not pick it up for a few days. Proceeds go to the B-29 'Doc' restoration project. Link is to Doc's web page and store, story, and gallery which are also interesting to look through. *Break* About three months ago my boogie bag's status switched from theory to practical and I was going to get into that but have run out of time - feel free to discuss such things as well. I will try again next time, whenever that may be. Oh, and didn't get my bi-annual mother henning on daylight savings about smoke detectors, safe batteries, and bad weather season. Like I said, next opportunity or later in this thread I will try to make time for boogie bags because I give myself a C, maybe C- where I thought I had at least an B+. |
| Posted by:swksvolFF |
| #2 I have two out this week myself - Luna City IV (the fourth in the series) in print and ebook, and a collection of historical essays, The Wild Frontier and Other Legends, which is ebook only ... but has a picture of a vintange cannon on the cover! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2017-06-04 08:36 |
| #1 A new book by Larry Correia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-04 05:06 |