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Location: Topsham, Maine United States
In My Own Words:
Although I am proud to be a registered nurse currently employed as a home health care administrator for a non-profit visiting nurse association in Brunswick, Maine, my passion is for writing. I have written a weekly column in the Portland Newspapers for the past 15 years titled 'Les Franco-Americans'; website http://www.MaineWriter.com. My favorite movie is 'Bridge on the River Kwai', probably b… Read moreAlthough I am proud to be a registered nurse currently employed as a home health care administrator for a non-profit visiting nurse association in Brunswick, Maine, my passion is for writing. I have written a weekly column in the Portland Newspapers for the past 15 years titled 'Les Franco-Americans'; website http://www.MaineWriter.com.
My favorite movie is 'Bridge on the River Kwai', probably because I lived in the Philippines for three years and the movie takes place in Burma, a country of similar climate and history. Second, of course, in the movie line up is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. My favorite book is probably 'Gone With the wind', but I have many other favorites like all the Leon Uris books, especially QB VII and many of James Michner's books, especially 'Chesapeake'. I own two cats. My pet peeve is radical partisan politics...we are a society built on diversity, not partisanship. If someone offered me an Amazon.com gift certificate, I would like to buy more DVDs. With one month off, I would take time to finally begin to write that book I have inside me...but working for a living keeps that project on hold, unfortunately.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
My interest in reading "first lady books" pre-dates the political polarity of these interesting first person or biographical accounts of women's lives lived in the limelight of our country's premiere leadership. I began to read "first lady books" in elementary school - remember those old fashioned kids' biographies with the silhouettes for pictures? I loved those books and quite a few were about America's first ladies. Given my nature to enjoy America's first ladies, I found the audio book, "Living History" read by Senator Clinton, like talking with one of my litany of heroines. It was just like she was talking to me in the privacy of my automobile. I wish… Read more
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Au Revoir, L'Acadie A Commentary on the Novel by William Brennan By Juliana L'Heureux A labor relations rivalry, frequently skirted by Franco-American and Irish history texts, is directly portrayed in a new novel written by William Brennan.
Brennan's "Au Revoir, L'Acadie" reveals an oftentimes mistrusting ethnic relationship between the Irish and French-Canadian immigrants who worked in New England mill towns and became union organizers during in the mid-1930s.
Evidence of the history Brennan describes is seen in the huge and empty mill buildings imposed on the New England landscape in cities like Lowell, MA, or Manchester, NH and Woonsocket, RI. Brennan creates a… Read more
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Complications: by Atul Gawande A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Surgery is often perceived as the most respected of all the medical professions, but one surgeon's bravely written insiders essays paints a bittersweet picture of the medical practice of surgeons. In fact, "practice" is the operational word in describing what makes for a "good" surgeon - and Dr. Atul Gawande describes how the surgeon needs plenty of opportunities to wield the scalpel before he or she feels as competent as they look when they use one. "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" by Atul Gawande is a personal collection of spell binding first person medical stories. Gawands presents… Read more
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