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Monica West reviews books for InDepthNH.org. Monica is known for her love of history and her lifelong love for reading. She has a bachelor’s degree in History, with a minor in English. “My years of reading for leisure and pleasure have given me the insight to read a book and analyze the author’s baggage, cargo and ability to write the language of his/her mind and utilize the gift of prose to educate and entertain the reader. Go get a book, read it and enjoy the adventure.” Contact Monica at mawest@tds.net
Did you ever wonder what Pablo Picasso was like on a personal level? Well, Camille Aubray has researched his life and presents to the reader a delightful, if not strange, mockup of his life and times during the spring of 1936 in a small seaside village in France.
MONICA READS: If you like to think that ghosts have an afterlife or that they can be part of the day-to-day life of the people who are still alive, this is the book for you.
MONICA READS: The author has spent an amazing amount of time researching Mileva Einstein and her three children from her love affair and subsequent marriage to Albert Einstein.
‘A Star for Mrs. Blake’: Congress passed legislation empowering the Secretary of War to arrange pilgrimages to European cemeteries for mothers and widows of members of military and naval forces who died in service from April 5, 1917 and July 1, 1921.
MONICA READS: This coming-of-age story is compelling, interesting, informative, emotional and you will be so glad you decided to read it.
This book has been indelibly etched into my brain. Why? Do you know the difference between being a common everyday sleuth and an investigative reporter?
RUN invites you into a Boston family. The father is a former mayor of Boston and the devoted husband of a lovely wife who is present from the beginning to end in the lives of her beloved husband and offspring.
Advertising execs and political spin doctors rule the day in ‘Gate City’ and then in the backdrop there is Dr. Fishbein. Who is he? How does he work mathematics and theory into a political scenario?
At a diner in Connecticut that also served as a book exchange, I picked a book up to flip through while I waited for the meal to arrive. Zap! I was hooked.
Monica Reads: Do you remember the Piasecny murders? Writer/filmmaker Gloria Norris does. They are an integral part of her captivating memoir about growing up in Manchester that you don’t want to miss.
‘In the Shadow of Vargas’ How choices and personal honor confront pathos, fear and stupidity.
Roger Wood takes the reader through the 1960s and all that entails. ‘Lawson Found’ brings home the passion of the times.
Monica Reads: If you love U.S. history, you will thoroughly enjoy this book.
Fannie Flagg brings to life the fears and experiences of young men and women sharing time and space with death and opportunities and hope.
Sad news about Atticus. Author Tom Ryan posted yesterday: “Tonight Atticus passed away in my arms. He had a brain tumor that was too much in the end. Thank you for loving him.” In honor of Atticus we are re-running Monica Drahonovsky’s book review of Tom Ryan’s “Following Atticus.”