A Book with a Color in the Title:
White House Nannies by Barbara Klein
A Book Turned or Based on a TV Show:
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
I've finished 2 move books for my Popsugar Challenge, fair warning this will be a quick post because they really weren't anything to write home about. Just a quick mini-review so that no one feels forgotten about. I am starting a new job at the end of the month, but I do remain dedicated to reading and judging many a book by its cover. Just so everyone gets a sense of my habits, I'm one of those people who constantly forgets to hit the send button. Only to go back to something an hour or two later and realize my mistake. I know my group members for projects in college got many an email with an "attachment" that was never there. I tend to get ahead of myself. Explaining why I actually wrote this post a week ago and am just now posting it. Anyways...
White House Nannies by Barbara Klein
I feel duped by this book. I've read nanny memoirs before, but I was looking for something a little
more. When I picked this book I thought it focused on nannies employed by the first family, but I was wrong. It was actually based on an actual nanny agency named White House Nannies. The book wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best of these celeb tell-alls I've ever read. Unless you're really into these types of memoirs I'd skip. Kinda mad I wasted a check mark on this one.
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
I'm a huge Call the Midwife fan! It comes on PBS on Mondays (I believe) and I've always seen the previews during Downton, but had never watched. This past spring I saw that seasons 1-3 were on Netflix, which I took as a sign and decided to watch. Let me just tell you that you will not be disappointed! The premise is about a young midwife named Jenny Lee who moves to the East End of London in the early 1950s. She moves into a convent in Poplar, which is a poorer section of the East End. I never really gave midwifery much thought, because of all that could go wrong during childbirth, but after watching the show and reading the book I 100% appreciate and want a midwife when I have a baby. The show is heavily based on the book and moving forward, (season 4 on) will no longer feature stories from the book. Which I'm okay with because I'm already hooked on the show! The book was
enjoyable, very easy to read. I would recommend this book because it's a memoir and it was really eye opening. I didn't know that in the 50s people were still living like turn of the century NYC in small tenements. A great historic memoir that would be perfect for everyone, even young adults.
Next I'm going to read Still Alice by Lisa Genova, I also got the movie version to compare. I'm interested in seeing how alike the two are. I'm also interested in reading Genova's second novel Inside the O'Briens, and will after I get done with Still Alice. That should be up in about a week. That's all for now!
White House Nannies by Barbara Klein
A Book Turned or Based on a TV Show:
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
I've finished 2 move books for my Popsugar Challenge, fair warning this will be a quick post because they really weren't anything to write home about. Just a quick mini-review so that no one feels forgotten about. I am starting a new job at the end of the month, but I do remain dedicated to reading and judging many a book by its cover. Just so everyone gets a sense of my habits, I'm one of those people who constantly forgets to hit the send button. Only to go back to something an hour or two later and realize my mistake. I know my group members for projects in college got many an email with an "attachment" that was never there. I tend to get ahead of myself. Explaining why I actually wrote this post a week ago and am just now posting it. Anyways...
White House Nannies by Barbara Klein
I feel duped by this book. I've read nanny memoirs before, but I was looking for something a little
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
I'm a huge Call the Midwife fan! It comes on PBS on Mondays (I believe) and I've always seen the previews during Downton, but had never watched. This past spring I saw that seasons 1-3 were on Netflix, which I took as a sign and decided to watch. Let me just tell you that you will not be disappointed! The premise is about a young midwife named Jenny Lee who moves to the East End of London in the early 1950s. She moves into a convent in Poplar, which is a poorer section of the East End. I never really gave midwifery much thought, because of all that could go wrong during childbirth, but after watching the show and reading the book I 100% appreciate and want a midwife when I have a baby. The show is heavily based on the book and moving forward, (season 4 on) will no longer feature stories from the book. Which I'm okay with because I'm already hooked on the show! The book was
Next I'm going to read Still Alice by Lisa Genova, I also got the movie version to compare. I'm interested in seeing how alike the two are. I'm also interested in reading Genova's second novel Inside the O'Briens, and will after I get done with Still Alice. That should be up in about a week. That's all for now!
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