Dining with Squirrels

One of my librarians recommended this book to me after I asked what she was reading. Carolyn Jessop was one of many wives to a prominent member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Her escape with her 8 children was a sensation because she was only the second woman to […]

Image is of Dutch movie based on book I just read — Winter In Wartime by Jan Terlouw. Terlouw was a child during the war in the Netherlands. His book is a fiction no doubt based on his experiences. A book I would give Ben if he were at ALL interested in my WW2 reading, […]

Got this from my sister-in-law. Lagnado writes with incredible detail and emotional memory of her mother’s childhood in Egypt and their family’s flight to New York City after the overthrow of the King in the 50s. I absolutely loved the glimpse into Egypt in the early 1900s and the story of Egyptian Jewish immigrants in […]