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So, I've been iin a bit of a rut lately, reading genre of various sorts and the last several have been rather less than satisfying. So I decided to shift off that rut and pulled up a book that's been in my TBR for more than a year -- Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife (retitled to match the series). It was, of course, the series that got me to buy the book in the first place.
Much to my delight, the book is every bit as enjoyable as the TV series! Different, in that the grittiness of Poplar and the Docks is much more prominent and compelling. But still the same sense of hope and uplift as the series has. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series, but at the current price, I'll need to wait until my library has them. I will not pay Penguin's inflated eBook price!
Next up, 1635: The Eastern Front, by Eric Flint. I kind of lost track of where things were in the Ring of Fire, and got totally turned off by a couple of Virginia deMarco books. But I'm slowly getting back into it, and simply avoiding any books she's had anything to do with.
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