by Grover Beach Library | Jul 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY by Rosemary Taylor (1943) A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith (1943) In my June blog, we learned about “stories that helped us win World War II” distributed to soldiers in the form of Armed Services Editions (ASE) books. Of all the ASE...
by Donna Rueff | Jun 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
This month’s selection, When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning (2015) is offered in memory of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. While memory of this aspect of the war has dimmed over the intervening...
by Donna Rueff | May 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Phaedra Patrick We meet Arthur Pepper, a 69-year-old retired English locksmith, on the one-year anniversary of his wife Miriam’s death. He had spent the last year in semi-hibernation, taking a “time out” from Life, stunned by the unexpected end of their happy...
by Donna Rueff | Apr 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Marcus Samuelsson I intended to choose a book for this month’s selection that was unrelated to cooking and chefs. Then I read Samuelsson’s book. I hope you’ll bear with me–I think Samuelsson’s and Ripert’s book (32 Yolks, March selection) should be paired. I...
by Donna Rueff | Mar 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Eric Ripert Who is Eric Ripert? If you are a fan of Anthony Bourdain’s series “Parts Unknown,” you may have seen a handsome white-haired, green-eyed man with a French accent on several shows. Ripert and Bourdain were good friends, and in fact they were shooting...
by Donna Rueff | Feb 7, 2019 | Books by the Beach
This month’s selection focuses on a little-known historical event in honor of Black History Month. In recent months, I’ve become interested in events occurring in the few years after World War I in the U.S. We know much of that history, and some issues of that time,...
