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Novel Ideas will be discussing the book What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. DBC 06250 Below is the synopsis from Bookshare. Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past. Clara Cartwright, eighteen years old in 1929, is caught between her overbearing parents and her love for an Italian immigrant. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash, he can no longer afford her care—and Clara is committed to the public asylum. Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara's story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices—with shocking and unexpected results. Illuminating and provocative, What She Left Behind is a masterful novel about the yearning to belong—and the mysteries that can belie even the most ordinary life. Join us in this zoom meeting to discuss this great book. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com
Novel Ideas will be discussing the book What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. DBC 06250 Below is the synopsis from Bookshare. Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster … Novel Ideas to discuss What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman DBC06250 03/19/2021 Read More »
Peg and Harry remain the best. We still don't like Ethan. BUT EVERYTHING ELSE ENDS HAPPILY AND WE CAN'T HANDLE IT. Reading Roommates is a long distance book club where we discuss a few chapters each week. Season 1 is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Read along with your hosts Sara Raffensperger and Britt Engel as they are emotionally traumatized by fictional characters. You can find us on the internet here: readingroommates.com Instagram: @readingroommates Twitter: @readingroommate readingroommates@gmail.com Theme song by Al Maiocco Logo by Hannah Walker
Shannon is the worst obviously and only further traumatizes Izzy. Izzy's mom is in a coma and Britt's theory was spot on. BRUNO. Cue our gross sobbing. Reading Roommates is a long distance book club where we discuss a few chapters each week. Season 1 is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Read along with your hosts Sara Raffensperger and Britt Engel as they are emotionally traumatized by fictional characters. You can find us on the internet here: readingroommates.com Instagram: @readingroommates Twitter: @readingroommate readingroommates@gmail.com Theme song by Al Maiocco Logo by Hannah Walker
OH MY GOD. THESE TEENS ARE THE WORST. THEY'RE JUST THE WORST. BRUNO!!!!!!!!!!! Reading Roommates is a long distance book club where we discuss a few chapters each week. Season 1 is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Read along with your hosts Sara Raffensperger and Britt Engel as they are emotionally traumatized by fictional characters. You can find us on the internet here: readingroommates.com Instagram: @readingroommates Twitter: @readingroommate readingroommates@gmail.com Theme song by Al Maiocco Logo by Hannah Walker
In chapters 9-12, we learn a LOT about Shannon except about how she found out about Izzy's mom (rifling through hours of microfiche??). We also get a look into how the Willard patients are (mis)treated and Clara fights back. Reading Roommates is a long distance book club where we discuss a few chapters each week. Season 1 is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Read along with your hosts Sara Raffensperger and Britt Engel as they are emotionally traumatized by fictional characters. You can find us on the internet here: readingroommates.com Instagram: @readingroommates Twitter: @readingroommate readingroommates@gmail.com Theme song by Al Maiocco Logo by Hannah Walker
Welcome to our first podcast episode ever! In our first season, we are discussing What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman, and our first episode is just chapters 1-4. So you don't have to have the entire book read to listen to our podcast. We are reading a handful of chapters each week too, so it's spoiler free (except for the chapters we're discussing, obviously). In this episode, we meet Izzy and Clara. Izzy is 17 and in foster care in 1995. Clara is 18 and the daughter of a wealthy banker in 1929. What She Left Behind has alternating chapters telling their stories. And we're emotional about all of it already. Reading Roommates is a long distance book club where we discuss a few chapters each week. Read along with your hosts Sara Raffensperger and Britt Engel as they are emotionally traumatized by fictional characters. You can find us on the internet here: readingroommates.com Twitter: @readingroommate Instagram: @readingroommates readingroommates@gmail.com Theme song by Al Maiocco Logo by Hannah Walker
Listener Question Fall 2017 Edition: As you all know Fall starts this Friday. What are your favorite things about Fall? Is it the leaves changing color? Pumpkin Spice Flavored Everything? Sweater and Hoodie Weather? Crisp Days and Apple Cider? Hay Rides? Fall TV Shows? I’m all ready for Fuller House this Friday September 22 on Netflix and Stranger Things Season 2 on October 27. My husband got me into watching the reality show Chrisley Knows Best on USA even though he normally hates reality tv. I bought some Fall Flavored M&M’s White Chocolate Pumpkin Pie and Cookies and Scream which Cookies and Scream is only available at Target. Glade Fall Scented Candles and Air Freshners Pumpkin Scented and Bath and Body Works Body Wash and Lotion my new favorites are Caramel Apricot, Fall is in the Air, and Marshmallow Pumpkin Latte. Also the Yankee Candle Autumn Wreath Car Air Freshner is good too. I recently last Thursday went and saw the author Sarah J. Maas the young adult author of the Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy Series I really enjoyed the Q & A and I’ll be going on the 30th of this month to see young adult author of the Shadow and Bone Grisha Trilogy Series and Six of Crows Duology. I haven’t met her before. I finished three books by adult historical fiction writer Ellen Marie Wiseman her new book The Life She Was Given which came out this July and is getting a lot of buzz and her other two books The Plum Tree set during World War 2 and What She Left Behind about psychiatric hospitals in the 1930’s and 40’s. Now I’m starting Coal River about the Philadelphia Mining practices with child labor. Well, I’ll see you guys two weeks from today with a two new episodes. Stay Tuned Next Sunday when I post the Listener Questions for S2E4: Baby Buddies Inc and S2E5: Tap Your Troubles Away. Happy Fall Everyone!! Email me your favorite things about Fall and i'll share them on the podcast. Gmail: punkypowerpbpodcast@gmail.com