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subtextures · 3 months
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I finished this book by Luis Urrea this morning. It is a beautiful book.The story of Red Cross coffee and doughnuts at the front lines of WW2. It is about love, friendship, bravery, joy, and the grief and guilt we carry with us. It is why we read books. You should read it.
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theredandwhitequeen · 3 months
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Book 47 of the 50 book challenge. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea. A historical fiction novel about Donut Dollies or Red Cross women during wwii following soldiers making donuts and coffee behind the lines. It follows two women who are in one truck and their lives after D day. It’s a good book.
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itsbooksallthewaydown · 5 months
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Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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kamreadsandrecs · 7 months
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johnpauljaramillo · 7 months
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reading books together: a podcast with deborah brothers and john paul jaramillo episode 14
Join us this month as we talk about Good Night, Irene: A Novel, Luis Alberto Urrea’s fictionalized account of his mother’s WWII service with the American Red Cross. It is clear Urrea is a poet at heart and his rich descriptions help anchor the reader into Irene and Dorothy’s world and what it takes to survive events that cannot be forgotten. (And of course, John Paul reads a few one-star…
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kammartinez · 7 months
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wellesleybooks · 8 months
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“Big Angel stood in the shadows of the living room, buffeted by stories of the past, things he remembered and things he had learned. Or maybe things he had dreamed. He could no longer tell the difference. The stories flew in like wind through an open window and whirled around him. He could feel them almost pull him off his feet. They seemed to come by their own volition, leaping over years, ignoring the decades. Big Angel found himself in a time storm. He saw it all as if the past were a movie in the Las Pulgas theater.”
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kenneturner · 1 year
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All Souls Dragonfly
All Souls Dragonfly — Infrared Image by kenne November in the Sonoran Desert. Land of indigenous cultures Whose names are true to nature. Ghosts whose shadows grow wings Standing in the graveyard That has become a holy vortex. The owls of the night carry Voices whispering death is alive. Dragonflies rest on dead stems only  To fly away, circle, and come back. Recognizing all the souls of the…
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kuramirocket · 2 years
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Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph.
A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 17 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.”  
Urrea won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction award and his collection of short stories, The Water Museum, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN-Faulkner Award and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews, among others. Into the Beautiful North, his 2009 a novel, is a Big Read selection by the National Endowment of the Arts and has been chosen by more than 50 different cities and colleges as a community read. The Devil’s Highway, Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize. The Hummingbird’s Daughter, his 2005 historical novel, tells the story of Urrea’s great-aunt Teresa Urrea, sometimes known as the Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Arc. The book, which involved 20 years of research and writing, won the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and, along with The Devil’s Highway, was named a best book of the year by many publications.
In all, more than 100 cities and colleges have chosen Into the Beautiful North, The Devil’s Highway or The Hummingbird’s Daughter (or another Urrea book) for a community read.
Urrea has also won an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for best short story (2009, “Amapola” in Phoenix Noir and featured in The Water Museum). Into the Beautiful North earned a citation of excellent from the American Library Association Rainbow’s Project. Urrea’s first book, Across the Wire, was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the Christopher Award. Urrea also won a 1999 American Book Award for his memoir, Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life and in 2000, he was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame following the publication of Vatos. His book of short stories, Six Kinds of Sky, was named the 2002 small-press Book of the Year in fiction by the editors of ForeWord magazine. He has also won a Western States Book Award in poetry for The Fever of Being and was in the 1996 Best American Poetry collection. Urrea’s other titles include By the Lake of Sleeping Children, In Search of Snow, Ghost Sickness and Wandering Time.
Urrea earned an undergraduate degree in writing, and did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
After serving as a relief worker in Tijuana and a film extra and columnist-editor-cartoonist for several publications, Urrea moved to Boston where he taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard. He also taught at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, IL, where he is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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wavesbaptism · 2 years
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"rivers believe in God"
"birds have always known the language of the dead"
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mercurygray · 2 months
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Friends, I have failed you all. I've seen a lot of posts over the last week with a lot of great biographical detail about many of the flyers and aircrew who've been name-dropped so far in Masters of the Air - and I haven't seen a single thing about the one name that is directly in the center of this blog's lane.
In Part 2, returning from their mission to Trondheim, Cleven and Egan walk into the Interrogation hut and Egan accepts a cup of coffee from a woman he thanks as Tatty. Later on, at the dance, James Douglass remarks that he will be 'coming in hot' on one of the American Red Cross women on the other side of the room, and one of his friends asks "General Spaatz's daughter? Or the other one?"
Katherine "Tatty" Spaatz was a member of the American Red Cross Clubmobile service and the daughter of General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, who commanded the Eighth Air Force on its move to England. (General Spaatz later moved to overall command of the entire Army Air Forces in the Europe Theatre of Operations, or ETO. He is, as the kids say, rather important.)
But we're not talking about him here. We're talking about her.
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Katherine was 22 years old when she arrived in Europe with the Red Cross. (One of her traveling companions that trip was Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy Sr., also coming to serve overseas with the ARC.)
The American Red Cross's mission in Europe had many facets during the Second World War - in addition to activities we might think of today, like collecting blood, providing disaster relief at home and running first aid seminars, they were responsible for collecting and distributing packages for Prisoners of War.
They also operated large canteens like the Rainbow Corner club, a recreational facility in London where soldiers on leave could get a room for the weekend, a bite to eat, and a number of other amenities. Smaller clubs called Donut Dugouts provided a space where a serviceman could always be assured of a cup of hot coffee, a donut, and a pretty girl to talk to, specially recruited for being friendly, fair, approachable, and specially trained to be the girl next door overseas. In addition to these more permanent installations, they also operated the Clubmobile service, a mobile version of their popular Dugouts that moved operations into retooled Green Line Bus Company buses to take donuts and a taste of home to the front line.
Tatty, as she was called, worked on the Clubmobile "North Dakota" along with Julia "Dooley" Townsend, Virginia "Ginny" Sherwood, and Dorothy "Mike" Myrick. Life Magazine did a full article on their clubmobile in February of 1943, which you can read online at the link. There is another lovely blog post with pictures here. She also worked for a time in a more permanent post at the USAAF base at Snetterton Heath, and was later sent to France. You can read a little bit more about her and see more pictures at her bio page at the American Air Museum in Britain website.
If you'd like more information about Tatty, Helen, and women like them, as well as the Clubmobile service, consider reading the following:
Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys by James H. Madison Battlestars & Doughnuts: World War II Clubmobile Experiences of Mary Metcalfe Rexford War through the Hole of a Donut, by Angela Petesch Goodnight, Irene (fiction) - Although this is a novel, it is based on Luis Alberto Urrea's mother's time as a Clubmobile worker and her personal papers.
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shoshiwrites · 3 months
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I hope it’s okay I ask more than one for the top 5 ask game but: places you’d like to visit, fiction books, and documentaries!
It's always ok, thank you so much! <3
Places I'd like to visit
Scotland/England/Wales
The Pacific Northwest
Back to Normandy tbh, or Paris but on my own time in the fall
All the cafés in South Korea are calling to me, if I ever decide to do a trip that big!
Somewhere in eastern Canada, maybe Québec City?
Fiction books I've been so bad about reading and reading fiction
The Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali
Good Night, Irene, Luis Alberto Urrea
Can I say another Steve Kluger book even though it's for teens? My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger.
Documentaries (not an expert here by any means and there are several on my list still but!)
20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville)
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Frank Marshall)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
Baseball (Ken Burns)
Listen I really liked It Ain't Over (Sean Mullin) which we watched last night
[Ask me my Top 5 anything!]
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itsbooksallthewaydown · 5 months
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charliejaneanders · 11 months
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I feel like I'm in pretty good company here
(This is the cover and description of Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood, featuring my name alongside Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer)
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musingsofmonica · 11 months
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May 2023 Diverse Reads
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May 2023 Diverse Read
•”Yellowface” by R. F. Kuang, May 16, William Morrow & Company, Literary Thriller 
•”Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care” by
Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, May 16, Haymarket Books, Political and Activism & Social Justice
•”Good Night, Irene” by Luis Alberto Urrea, May 30, Little Brown and Company, Historical 
•”The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese, May 02, Grove Press, Literary Historical 
•”Chain-Gang All Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, May 02, Pantheon Books, Literary 
•”Warrior Girl Unearthed” by Angeline Boulley, May 02, Henry Holt & Company, Thriller/Suspense 
•”Ander & Santi Were Here” by Jonny Garza Villa, May 02, Wednesday Books, YA Contemporary Romance
•”Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea” by Rita Chang-Eppig, May 30, Bloomsbury Publishing, Literary Historical 
•”Whale” by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Chi-Young Kim (Translator) — Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, May 02, Archipelago Books, Magical Realism
•”Quietly Hostile: Essays” by Samantha Irby, May 16, Vintage, Memoir in Essays
•”You Are Here” by Karin Lin-Greenberg, May 02, Counterpoint, Contemporary 
•”Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?” by Crystal Smith Paul, May 02, Henry Holt & Company, Historical
•”The Lost Journals of Sacajewea” by Debra Magpie Earling, May 23, Milkweed Editions, Historical 
•”Hula” by Jasmin Iolani Hakes, May 02, Harpervia, Historical — Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
•”Dances” by Nicole Cuffy, May 16, One World, Literary
•”Horse Barbie: A Memoir” by Geena Rocero, May 30, Dial Press, Memoir 
•”Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity” by Leah Myers, May 16, W. W. Norton & Company, Memoir in Essays
•The Late Americans” by Brandon Taylor, May 23, Riverhead Books, Literary
•Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice” by Annika Sharma, May 02, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Romance
•”The East Indian” by Brinda Charry, May 02, Scribner Book Company, Historical 
Happy Reading! — mo✌️
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