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The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The following is a copy of an email I received from Cool Jams that I thought I should share with you. Not only because they, too, want to make everyone aware of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and because they are taking part of their sales and donating it to the Susan G. Komen organization, but because they make a product that women going through "the change" will find invaluable!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By now, we've probably all been touched by someone who has been negatively affected by breast cancer in some way....perhaps a friend, relative or neighbor. To help the cause, Cool-jams is going pink this month to promote breast cancer awareness. There’s no time like the present to get passionately pink about breast cancer prevention. During the month of October Cool-jams pledges to donate 10% of every sale to the Susan G. Komen organization. Susan G. Komen is a fundraising program that inspires breast cancer advocacy and honors those affected by the disease. Please help raise awareness among your friends, family or co-workers; and help end breast cancer forever!
Here's how it works:
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4) The rest is easy. Cool-jams will automatically donate 10% of your purchase to Susan G. Komen.
**If you know of someone suffering from night sweats associated with breast cancer treatment. The gift of Cool-jams along with a donation a 10% donation to Susan G. Komen is the perfect gift!
Thanks for your support of Susan G. Komen and breast cancer awareness. Visit Cool-jams before the end of October to make your order count toward a donation toward breast cancer awareness.
Remember October 16 is National Mammography Day. According to the National Cancer Institute, women in their 40s and older should have mammograms every 1 to 2 years.
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Ok folks, it is smile time! Thanks, Karen!
I had a flat tire on the interstate, so I eased my car over to the shoulder of the road, carefully got out of the car and opened the trunk. I took out 2 cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so life like you wouldn't believe it! They are in trench coats exposing their nude bodies to the approaching drivers.
To my surprise, cars start slowing down looking at my lifelike men which made it safer for me to work at the side of the road.And of course, traffic starts backing up. Everybody is tooting their horns and waving like crazy!
It wasn't long before a state trooper pulls up behind me. He gets out of his car and starts walking towards me. I could tell he was not a happy camper!
'What's going on here?'
'My car has a flat tire', I said calmly.
'Well, what are those obscene cardboard men doing here by the road?'
I couldn't believe that he didn't know.. So I told him,
'Helloooooo, those are my Emergency Flashers.'
This book has some beautiful descriptive writing. The best characters are Yellow Jack (Yellow Fever) and the weather in New Orleans. What a horrible way to die; as Hood's wife, oldest daughter, and himself do at the beginning of the novel.
When my father was stationed in Panama the last time, I got to spend lots of time going through New Orleans as it is the port of embarkation and debarkation to the Canal Zone. Imagine putting on makeup, walking outside, and having your makeup ending up around your jaw line and then think of what it was like without air conditioning or our modern dress mode. Or the bugs with no bug spray (although long sleeves did help with that and many people did have netting around the beds)?
My problem was the with the portrayal of General Hood and his wife. I just couldn't see them and it really bothered me.
Anna Marie Hennen was young, lively, bright, and lovely. Well stationed in society, she could have her pick of men. Yet she spots a man sitting off from the group, with his artificial leg off. She was attracted to him.
Here was my problem, human nature has not changed a lot since the Civil War. Lots of people would not ventured toward this man.
How should I know? I am disabled and have been around disabled veterans a lot. They and I have experienced negative reactions from able bodied people. It is a sad commentary but true.
I talked to my 90 year old mother to see if I was wrong about how people reacted to people to the wounded when she was a young Child of the Confederacy, a wife during WWII and Korea. I know about the survivors of Viet Nam. I wrote them while they were stationed overseas and after they came home. I met them at Fort Sam Houston while we were all recovering from whatever. I met them in church. I met them when I went out with hospital staff to clubs where I was thanked for dancing with them. Things have not changed. See my problem; my inability do see her action. Much less, the General taking off his artificial leg in public. As an officer and a gentleman of the South, this would be totally inappropriate, probably just as inappropriate in the North. Somehow they did meet and fall in love but this way just seemed so improbable to me.
As my father was an officer, I have meet several men who became generals or were generals when I met them. The more I read about General John Bell Hood, the less I believed in him and the harder it was to read this novel.
I had to stop reading. I read other's glowing reviews. I had to be nuts.
Then I googled him (http://www.johnbellhood.org/). Both characters are Generals, who were shot through the hand, then had an arm made useless, and then lost a leg while fighting for what they believed was the right thing to do.
As to the character of the man, I didn’t see the character in the book as the one online. What I read online seemed very real. Did he lose some battles? Yes. Was it his fault or that of his commanding officer? When he lost his money, was he the only one or was it part of the time? What kind of strength must a man have to sustained the injuries Hood did and yet carry on in war and after? He married a lovely girl with whom he had 11 children.
My problem is I must find a way to believe in the major characters to really appreciate and get involved in a book; no matter how well the words are put together. If you can believe in the characters, I think will enjoy A Separate Country.
1. What color is your mouthwash?
