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Secrets and Bravery: A Review of Kathleen M. Rodgers’s Novel Johnnie Come Lately | The Military Spouse Book Review
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February 9, 2015. Secrets and Bravery: A Review of Kathleen M. Rodgers’s Novel Johnnie Come Lately. By Jodie Cain Smith. I begin reading many books, but I don’t finish many books. In fact, the bookshelf in my office is crammed full of abandoned books. Why, you ask? Why would a woman who makes her living with words stop reading? Questions that aren’t fully answered until the last page. Oh yeah, I finished this one. I had no choice. I turned the page to Chapter One searching for answers, but was thrust int...
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April 7, 2014. At 3456 × 5184. Or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. By Women in the Ranks.
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Monthly Archives: June 2015. June 17, 2015. I’d Live in the Moment if I Could Handle It: A Review of Jesse Goolsby’s ‘I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them’. 8220;There will never be any more heaven or hell than there is now,” reads the epigraph to Jesse Goolsby’s novel. I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them,. Shit, and every moment–no matter how dreadful or pleasant or dull–adds up to something meaningful. Walt Whitman’s profoundly empathetic, life-affirming vision ...Wintric’s thi...
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Our Deployment Journal | The Military Spouse Book Review
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Here’s an index of the posts so far:. 1 “On the Horizon”. March 18, 2014). 2 “Neither Here Nor There”. April 14, 2014). 3 “One Month Out”. June 8, 2014). 4 “Pre-Deployment Fun Tour 2014”. June 28, 2014). 5 “Salad Days”. July 1, 2014). 6 “This is Marriage”. July 7, 2014). 1 “Horseman, Pass By: In Which We Survive Week One of Deployment and My Dad is Mistaken for Robert Redford”. July 17, 2014). 2 “We Used to Wait: Playlist for a Deployment”. July 24, 2014). 3 “Soy Capitan, Soy Capitan”. July 30, 2014).
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April 7, 2014. At 3456 × 5184. Or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. By Women in the Ranks.
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Breakwater Reading Series: February 2013
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Saturday, February 9, 2013. Friday, February 15th, 7 PM. Persevering through the snow and ice, the February installment of the Breakwater Reading Series will be held this Friday, 7 PM–8:30 PM, at the Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline. Our readers will be:. Is a first-year poet in UMass Boston’s MFA Program. Before coming to Boston, Lewis co-founded Portland's 12128. An alternative gallery and workspace constructed aboard the Labrador. I’ll Start this Way. Advised poten...
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Choosing to Stay or Go: Kathleen M. Rodgers’s Novel, Johnnie Come Lately | The Military Spouse Book Review
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May 25, 2015. Choosing to Stay or Go: Kathleen M. Rodgers’s Novel, Johnnie Come Lately. I finished reading Kathleen M. Rodgers’s second novel,. Johnnie Come Lately,. Back in January (and it was reviewed by author-and-Army wife Jodie Cain Smith here. Rodgers’s main gal, Johnnie Kitchen, was raised by her grandparents after her troubled mother mysteriously up and left. (Johnnie’s soldier father was killed in Vietnam.) Fortunately, Johnnie’s grandparents gave her the moral compass ...And perhaps most haunti...
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I Am Still Surprised How All This Sneaks Up On Me: An Interview with Amber Jensen | The Military Spouse Book Review
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July 16, 2015. I Am Still Surprised How All This Sneaks Up On Me: An Interview with Amber Jensen. I almost forgot to miss you today,. Amber Jensen writes in her memoir-in-progress,. Breathing Through the Night. The Jensens on Blake’s homecoming day. That kept any one packet of correspondence from falling too far into either category. I am still surprised how all this sneaks up on me. Breathing Through the Night. Seems like the kind of memoir that will be good reading for anyone — and invaluable for...
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I’d Live in the Moment if I Could Handle It: A Review of Jesse Goolsby’s ‘I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them’ | The Military Spouse Book Review
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June 17, 2015. I’d Live in the Moment if I Could Handle It: A Review of Jesse Goolsby’s ‘I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them’. 8220;There will never be any more heaven or hell than there is now,” reads the epigraph to Jesse Goolsby’s novel. I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them,. Pre-wartime suffering, of the three. His mother was badly injured in a car accident and, later, is dying of cancer; his father sets forest fires for fun, one of which ends in tragedy. Where’s the turn? The poin...
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August 29, 2016. Homefront Journal: Our Own Foreign Country. Many military spouses have shared thoughts on the deployment experience, which is notable for its moments of extreme highs and lows, heartbreaking departures, fraught communications and, ideally, a loving reunion. But what about all the moments and years in between that make up the life of a military family? Here, in an occasional series (“Homefront Journal”) chronicling the many seasons of a tour of duty, poet Lisa Stice (. Is a Marine Corps w...
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