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“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn’t one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel by Katherine Arden

July 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

They are fighting their war in the last world, but we’re dying in this one. January 1918. Laura Iven, a revered field nurse, wounded when the Germans bombed the munitions depot her field hospital was next to, is discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Months later, back home in Halifax, Canada, Laura lives assisting three elderly mediums after the deaths of her parents. On the night that Pim Shaw, a young widow seeking to connect with her son, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:97 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I ·
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Crashing Off the Rails

The Orphan's Letters by Glynis Peters

March 30, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Kitty, an orphaned young woman, works to gain her Red Cross qualification as she continues to work as a nurse during World War Two. I picked up this ARC on NetGalley a while ago, and came to realize sometime after that that WW2 historical fiction is generally not for me. I enjoy learning about the time period and the experiences of ordinary people, but I find that the plots zigzag between melodramatic and dull too much for my liking. But my NetGalley shelf needs to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: ARC, England, Glynis Peters, historical, NetGalley, nursing, Romance, war, ww2

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: ARC, England, Glynis Peters, historical, NetGalley, nursing, Romance, war, ww2 ·
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History is Made by Persistence and Knowing the Right People

A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton & the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates

September 12, 2022 by Ale Leave a Comment

Clara Barton is one of those historical figures that sits as a vaguely understood fact in my mind. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about her existence, but beyond being the founder of the American Red Cross, she never bore much significance to me. But then I wrote a little article about visiting small historical sites and the “Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office” came up in my search. A cursory perusal of the website had me fascinated, and I needed to know […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #history, American History, cbrbingo14, civil war, clara barton, Death, Medical History, nursing, Reconstruction, Stephen B. Oates, war, Women's History

Ale's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #history, American History, cbrbingo14, civil war, clara barton, Death, Medical History, nursing, Reconstruction, Stephen B. Oates, war, Women's History ·
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Every Nurse Has a Poop Story or 12

February 28, 2015 by Annie AK 2 Comments

This is not a book for everyone to read and enjoy. I mean, you can still pick it up and peruse even if you aren’t, were, or are going to become a nurse because you’re a grown-ass adult who can make his or her own decisions and who the fuck am I to tell you what to do? You might not really get as much out of it as someone who does have some investment in the nursing field, though. This book goes from time […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Kati Kleber, medicine, nursing

Annie AK's CBR7 Review No:6 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Kati Kleber, medicine, nursing ·
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