Thank you for sharing these you-knew-them-when picks just in time for Mother’s Day!
Also a shout out to MBK’s FEVER, about Mary Mallon, the woman who would come to be know as Typhoid Mary and generally got a pretty bad shake. All the things famous people say in the blurbs here are true. https://marybethkeane.com/books/fever/ 100% recommend. Pairs well with Anthony Bourdain’s take on the same woman in his own book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164449.Typhoid_Mary
Oh she was talking about this! She laughed because people always congratulate her on her "second book" when really it's her fourth. Ha! But I definitely want to go back to her older ones!!
Thank you for posting and referring these books to me, a reader and lover of books. I met Mimi in Nepal in 1985. I sensed she was a grounded, kind, intelligent woman through our brief interactions. I admired her for her courage to trek alone in a somewhat dangerous and very certainly challenging environment. I had been a professional RN for ten years and was accustomed to needing to size people up quickly due to my hospital work, and I believed she would become an exceptional physician. I also feel honored to have been asked to do a beta read of her book. Her writing is so vivid and authentic that I thought I was on her journey with her. So many memories of Nepal returned to me, and so did my longing to do it all again. Two chance meetings with Mimi, one in Nepal and one on Facebook, have nourished my spirit.
The other two books look like interesting reads as well. Voila! My Summer reading list is done.
Thank you for sharing these you-knew-them-when picks just in time for Mother’s Day!
Also a shout out to MBK’s FEVER, about Mary Mallon, the woman who would come to be know as Typhoid Mary and generally got a pretty bad shake. All the things famous people say in the blurbs here are true. https://marybethkeane.com/books/fever/ 100% recommend. Pairs well with Anthony Bourdain’s take on the same woman in his own book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164449.Typhoid_Mary
Oh she was talking about this! She laughed because people always congratulate her on her "second book" when really it's her fourth. Ha! But I definitely want to go back to her older ones!!
I am reading Ask Again, Yes, and I am delighted to have been introduced to Mary Beth Keane's writing through your post.
Thank you for posting and referring these books to me, a reader and lover of books. I met Mimi in Nepal in 1985. I sensed she was a grounded, kind, intelligent woman through our brief interactions. I admired her for her courage to trek alone in a somewhat dangerous and very certainly challenging environment. I had been a professional RN for ten years and was accustomed to needing to size people up quickly due to my hospital work, and I believed she would become an exceptional physician. I also feel honored to have been asked to do a beta read of her book. Her writing is so vivid and authentic that I thought I was on her journey with her. So many memories of Nepal returned to me, and so did my longing to do it all again. Two chance meetings with Mimi, one in Nepal and one on Facebook, have nourished my spirit.
The other two books look like interesting reads as well. Voila! My Summer reading list is done.
This is amazing! She is a special person.