Wed give her antibiotics and wait her out, I figured. Each day, she stayed more or less the same. I checked her vital signs, listened to her lungs, looked up her labs. I went to see her twice each day for the next several days. I took sputum and blood cultures and, following the internists instructions, started her on an antibiotic for this possible pneumonia. So her internist admitted her to the hospital, and now she was under my care. A chest X-ray showed a possible pneumoniamaybe it was, maybe it wasnt. But some laboratory tests revealed her white blood cell count was abnormally high. One was a wrinkled, seventy-something-year-old Portuguese woman who had been admitted becauseIll use the technical term hereshe didnt feel too good. The senior resident had assigned me primary responsibility for three or four patients. I was on an internal medicine rotation, my last rotation before graduating. Several years ago, in my final year of medical school, I took care of a patient who has stuck in my mind.
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And as the years go by, the little dog's loyalty is rewarded in a very special way. Bobby's devotion changes the lives of those around him and ultimately the conditions of the poor in Edinburgh. By day, he plays with the local orphans and eats at a nearby tavern but, in spite of anything even the Lord Provost himself can do, Bobby returns each night to sleep by his master. The farmer tries to reclaim Bobby as a pet for his daughter but the little dog remains faithful only to Auld Jock, guarding his master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the heart of Edinburgh's old town. When Jock is dismissed by the farmer he tries to find work in the city, but sinks into poverty and dies, having suffered one cold winter too many. The famous true story of a devoted dog first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world.īobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. His high-handed attitude and dominating personality makes him aloof from his siblings, with two exceptions being. Robert "the Winner" Godwin (Part 1) The eldest of five brothers (the others being John, Lionel, Edmund and Thomas) Robert is apparently a successful lawyer based in London and the heir apparent of a family of Welsh rural gentry which while seemingly happy, successful and prosperous, has a skeleton or two in the closet that as usual involves murder and adultery.The book is divided into six parts, each one based on the point-of-view of several characters, namely: The book's main events all revolve around a stately Georgian era home named Oxmoon, and are set on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, spanning a period of over forty years in which the owners of Oxmoon all have to face immense challenges, financial hardship and even personal tragedy. The Wheel of Fortune (1984) is a novel by Susan Howatch and recounts the trials and tribulations of a fictitious British family, the Godwins, who appear to be part of the minor aristocracy.Īs the title of the novel and Boethius' comments on Fortune as printed on the first page of the very first part suggest, defying the ravages of time and fate forms a central theme to this novel, where the six primary characters seek to challenge fate or to make their own destinies regardless of the social norms or circumstances of the time. When Troy fell, Achilles promised, he would take his beloved home and marry her. Then passion intervened and the chains of love bound the slave to her master, as Achilles lost his heart to the beautiful Briseis. Her palace was sacked, her people carried off into slavery, while she herself became the prize of the leader, Prince Achilles. From the battlements Briseis saw her husband and her beloved brothers die. When King Agamemnon led the Greek host against the great city of Troy, he began by crushing the Trojan allies, including fair Lyrnessos. Here, in a modern retelling of Homer's immortal classic The Iliad is a magnificent saga of courage, betrayal, devotion and destiny. Their lives were the stuff of dreams and of legend, and for three thousand years the world has wept over the tragic story of their doomed love. Achilles was the young prince of Thessaly, greatest of Greek warriors, the finest hero of them all. IN THE DAYS WHEN GODS TALKED WITH MORTALS.īriseis was the rightful-born queen of Lyrnessos, seer and spokesperson of the gods. 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The charges were dismissed and the book was seen by the judges as promoting morality and strengthening of family values instead. This was in spite of the fact that the magazine's editors had already done their own censoring of “offending passages.” Flaubert himself was shocked and the resulting very public trial in 1857 added to the book's notoriety. However, its bold theme, path breaking ideas of women's rights and the condemnation of middleclass morality led to its being legally attacked by the Church and the government. Of course there is also the story of a dull marriage punctuated by passionate, adulterous love affairs.įirst published in serial form in a Parisian magazine and deemed to be the “perfect” novel, Flaubert's debut was received by both readers and critics with acclaim and admiration. The strands woven together in Gustave Flaubert's famous, path breaking 1856 novel Madame Bovary include a provincial town in Normandy, France, a shy young doctor with an indifferent career and a lovely young woman who lives in a fantasy world based on the innumerable romantic novels she reads. I am SO excited to have Norah come to Sage this fall for a reception and to teach workshops. And to this day, every time I flip through a magazine or Ravelry and see something that makes me go, “AH! I LOVE that!”, I check the designer – Norah Gaughan! I’ve been able to follow along with her designs ever since and have knit several of them. I got to sit in on sales meetings with our awesome Berroco sales rep, Andra, and flip through the Norah volumes before they were released to the general public. Shortly thereafter, Norah was hired as design director at Berroco and I moved back home to work with my mom at the old Sage Fine Gifts and Yarn. Knitting Nature was the first pattern book I ever bought as a result of the internet in general and Ravelry specifically, and is one of my knitting treasures. I had no idea knitting could be like that! Over and over again, I checked the designer, and it was Norah Gaughan. They were really unique and inspiring – they looked nothing like what I had been making. I would browse the pattern database for hours and a handful of patterns kept jumping out at me. By the time I settled in to a quiet obsession, I had a huge blogroll of knitting and spinning blogs that I checked in on daily, and I had signed up for this brand new knitting website – Ravelry. I picked knitting up, in earnest, in the two years I had between undergraduate and graduate school. Almost to the beginning of my real, capital K, Knitting days. These women produced jam that they created from start to finish all of which went to feed a hungry nation. Ironically, even though these women helped with vital, important work in their communities, they were perhaps best known for making jam. Not every woman was cut out for war and battlefield nursing so what did they do? Well they made jam! They advised the government on issues such as evacuation housing, children’s health, and reconstructed. Summers focuses her research on the Women’s Institute which was an organization the ran canteens, knitted garments, and collected herbs to replace medicines. In towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country s war effort. This book focuses on what was happening at home while the boys were away a war. Julie Summers has written a lot on the subject of women and WWII especially (I have my eye on one of her other books, Fashion on the Ration, as well!) and her book Jambusters (AKA Home Fires) was the inspiration for the new PBS series Home Fires. I am a sucker for anything about WWI or WWII and women! This book totally caught my eye from the title alone and I knew instantly that I had to read it! The secondary characters are also well drawn and made a terrific supporting cast. Iris’s emotional turmoil is palpable and felt truly genuine. The characters really stand out in this one. This book charges from the gate and maintains a breakneck speed, but still captures that atmospheric tone that makes your spine tingle with the anticipation, knowing something truly sinister is afoot. This story, however, did not employ that slow, steady, atmospheric pacing some domestic or psychological thrillers use in these instances. The stories centered around double lives or big secrets revealed after the sudden death of a spouse has always drawn me into their web. Was Will on the plane that crashed? Could he still be alive? If so, why did he lie to her? Did Will place Iris in danger? As she peels away the layers of the foundation her marriage was built upon, one shocking revelation after another is unearthed, until Iris finds herself in deep trouble, unsure what or whom to believe or trust. As word trickles back to her that Will may have been on an ill-fated flight, Iris discovers her husband may not be the man she thought he was. Iris and Will are happily married, blissful, even, until Will leaves town on a business trip. Wow! The Marriage Lie is an outstanding domestic thriller that captured my attention from page one and never let go. The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle is a 2017 MIRA publication. Furthermore, many of the closeups are hand-held, an extremely poor choice of technique for a story set in the 1930s. There are no establishing shots of buildings, no wide shots of ballrooms and the like, and there are dozens upon dozens of off-center closeups. "Mystery of the Blue Train" has a pretty good Poirot plot with some colorful supporting players and a few effective performances, but it is so badly directed-no, ATROCIOUSLY directed-as to be a headache-inducing pain to watch. These were virtues they are sorely missed. Not only are Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon gone (along with the fine actors who played them), but so is Poirot's Arte Moderne apartment building-and any reasonable sense of time and place. It's easy to tell this latter-day batch of Poirot adventures are not being made by the production company that turned out the hour-long episodes and the first group of feature-length TV movies with David Suchet. |