A Fresh Air Cure.A Fresh Air Cure Barb Jensen Noun 1. Jensen - modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1st Books www.authorhouse AuthorHouse, formerly known as 1stBooks, is a print on demand publisher that provides aspiring authors self-publishing services. According to its own promotional materials,[1] .com ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1414072465; $16.00 (electronic $4.95) 328 pages This easy to read romance explores another time and place and family crisis that is neither as familiar nor as threatening as it was a hundred years ago. For that I was happy. I prefer escaping into another world while I read, and this story did that for me. Martha, the heroine, is the essence of the sweet, guileless, dependent matriarch that was typical in the early 1900's society. Almost as soon as the story begins, Martha is diagnosed with tuberculosis tuberculosis (TB), contagious, wasting disease caused by any of several mycobacteria. The most common form of the disease is tuberculosis of the lungs (pulmonary consumption, or phthisis), but the intestines, bones and joints, the skin, and the genitourinary, and forced to leave her husband and children to go off on her own to seek a cure. Desperately sad, she is at least comfortable with the fact that her sister, Susan, will be there to run her house and take care of her husband and children. From the start, there is something unacceptable about Martha's husband. His reaction to Martha's crisis made me very uncomfortable. It didn't take too much more reading to realize that Barb Jensen truly created Dickens like characters for this story. There were either the very, very good--Martha, Chet and Connie--or the very, very bad. Rest assured that while reading this, you will emote (chat) emote - (emotion) A command used on talk systems and MUDs to indicate the performance of an action, usually a facial expression of emotional state. . You will feel Martha's frustration, sadness, and impatience. You will learn how undependable the CURE was. You will learn more about TB, a killer of many during the early 1900's (my grandfather among them) and you will get a sense of life when good people can make lemonade out of lemons. Isobel Kleinman, Reviewer re·view·er n. One who reviews, especially one who writes critical reviews, as for a newspaper or magazine. reviewer Noun a person who writes reviews of books, films, etc. Noun 1. www.isobelkleinman.com |
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