Shadows of the Workhouse
10 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by footymadgill from Croydon, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, November 19, 2011
The second book in the Midwife series
What a thoughtful surprise, dear footymadgill! Not only was this great book in the package, but an enormous multipack of my favourite Trebor Peppermints, and a very sweet card with a funny cover.
Best wishes back across the pond to you as well!
Thank you!
Best wishes back across the pond to you as well!
Thank you!
I just noticed that DentriticTrees has this on her wish list, so after I read it, it will continue its journey with another Calgary Bookcrosser.
Great choice, Footymadgill, thank you again!
Great choice, Footymadgill, thank you again!
Halfway through this book and totally loving it. Life in the workhouse is horrendous!!! Loved the part about Peggy and Frank, this one of the few episodes of Call the Midwife that I have seen, and it was touching to read. I am so looking forward to passing this book on to share this amazing story!!!!!
Another Saturday morning, another quiet coffee and another lovely book closed for the last time. Thank you, my dear Footymadgill, for taking me to a place that I would never imagined. Jennifer Worth writes with so much love and compassion for the people she looked after, she puts a face to the story of the thousands of the nameless people of post-war London. I will never forget Jane, Peggy and Frank, and of course the old soldier Mr Collett.
This book will continue next week at the local meetup.
Thank you, Gill!
This book will continue next week at the local meetup.
Thank you, Gill!
From across the pond to the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, where will this lovely book travel next?
Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our Facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail N.E. starting at 11am. New and experienced Bookcrossers are always welcome.
Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our Facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail N.E. starting at 11am. New and experienced Bookcrossers are always welcome.
Picked up at the February meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at the Joshua Tree Café.
Wow - that was an amazing trilogy of true stories, from a time we cannot imagine.
I found Part 1 - Workhouse Children, to be almost unbearable to read. These infants and children basically born into slavery. We think of Dicken's writing as distant fiction, but it was a shock to realize how long these workhouses existed into the 20th century.
Part 2 - The Trial of Sister Monica Joan, provided almost a comic relief and I enjoyed it very much.
Part 3 - The Old Soldier was a touching sentiment to the compassion of a young nurse, the author.
Thank you for sharing such a touching book. I will be taking this to the next meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers.
I found Part 1 - Workhouse Children, to be almost unbearable to read. These infants and children basically born into slavery. We think of Dicken's writing as distant fiction, but it was a shock to realize how long these workhouses existed into the 20th century.
Part 2 - The Trial of Sister Monica Joan, provided almost a comic relief and I enjoyed it very much.
Part 3 - The Old Soldier was a touching sentiment to the compassion of a young nurse, the author.
Thank you for sharing such a touching book. I will be taking this to the next meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers.
This book is going to the January meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers, so that it can find a new reader.
I delayed starting this as I thought it would be very depressing. Finally decided it was time. Depressing? Yes. Funny? Yes. Insightful? Yes. Glad I read it ? Yes. Thanks for sharing this.
I am taking this book for the C is for Children's theme September meeting at Cravings.
Picked up at get together
I've read Farewell to Eastend, and was looking forward to this one as well. I was expecting there to be a bit more stories directly related to the workhouses, but it becomes obvious how isolated the people in them were and how little documentation of their own lives exist.
I loved the stories and the insights they gave to the lives at that time, and I thought the writing style of the author was excellent and captured the emotions nicely. The different stories made me sometimes laugh and sometimes cry.
Thanks for the great read!
I loved the stories and the insights they gave to the lives at that time, and I thought the writing style of the author was excellent and captured the emotions nicely. The different stories made me sometimes laugh and sometimes cry.
Thanks for the great read!
Taken to get together
Picked up at the December meeting.
Journal Entry 16 by megami-no-ushi at Cravings Market Restaurant in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, January 13, 2018
Released 6 yrs ago (1/13/2018 UTC) at Cravings Market Restaurant in Calgary, Alberta Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Taken to the January meeting! A really eye opening book but beautifully and sympathetically told.
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Caught at last book club meeting
Brought this home from the May BookCrossing meeting.
I have had this for a long time and just can't seem to get into it. Taking back to the group as there are others who want to read it.
Taking to the September BookCrossing meetup to be enjoyed by the next reader
I just got this book at our September meeting. Look forward to reading.
I had this one on my bookshelf for a few weeks, but when I looked at it again I realized that the book was written by Jennifer Worth who wrote "Call the Midwife" I had recently watched the series of Call the Midwife on Netflex, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Many of the characters in this book were in the "Call The Midwife". I thoroughly enjoyed this book which took a good look at the Workhouses in London which were in existence from the late 1870s and were abolished in the 1930s but didn't actually close until the 1950's. A very good read.
I got a bunch of books back from L-Marie to get them back into the group, this was one of them
Got these from a BookCrosser to return to circulation. I am sorting the books and either passing directly to a Calgary member who has requested it or returning it to the person who introduced it to the group. Hopefully this one will find a new reader soon!
