Excerpt from Out of the Mist, Memories of War
Submitted by Mike Mullins on February 15, 2012 - 14:29
—Excerpt from Out of the Mist, Memories of War
Awakened Again
Creative Non-fiction
The Healing Power of Writing
Submitted by Leila Levinson on February 8, 2012 - 10:39
As I toured the country last year to do readings from my book, Gated Grief, often, someone in the audience asked me, “How long did it take you to write the book?” That seemingly straightforward question has no straightforward answer. The origins of Gated Grief, a portrait of my father's PTSD from World War II and how it shaped my childhood, lay in my fervent erratic outpourings in the journal I began “keeping” in high school. (strange word: keeping) Some of those entries became a part of the book.
Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery, The
Submitted by Joyce Faulkner on January 22, 2012 - 01:43 Title: The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery
Author: Carol Schwartz Vento
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1934597813
Daughters, fathers and war – three words seldom used together. In The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery, Carol Schultz Vento weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book describes the seldom told story of how the war trauma of World War II impacted one family. This personal story is combined with the author’s thorough research and investigation of the reality for those World War II veterans who could not forget the horrors of war. This nonfiction work fills in the missing pieces of the commonly accepted societal view of World War II veterans as stoic and unwavering, a true but incomplete portrait of that generation of warrior.
Author(s) Mentioned:
Vento, Carol Schultz
INCOMING DOC!
Submitted by Ron Camarda on January 17, 2012 - 19:53Incoming
By Jack “Doc” Manick
Author House, Bloomington, IN, 283p
Review by: Ron Camarda, MWSA
They Called me Barbie
Submitted by Michael Benton on January 15, 2012 - 05:59They Called Me Barbie
by Michael Benton
You really can’t tell someone what life is like on a submarine. It’s one of those things you have to experience for yourself. I mean, you can understand the words for sure; just it misses something in the telling. Still, there are stories to share that, at the very least, should give a smile. I guess the best place to start is at the beginning.