Yeah! a review in Library Journal!:
So often we confuse the words anxious and eager. As in ... She was anxious to take a vacation.
But here's a case where the word anxious was right: I was anxious to read the review of my new book in Library Journal.
My publicists (former publicists--they got the ball rolling and I'm on my own now) were thrilled the trade magazine agreed to the review. A rare coup, they said.
But I didn't find it online the week of October 15, when it was due. When I did, I could only read the first few lines.
Silly me expected to get an email from Library Journal with the complete review. And I thought I couldn't get an online subscription, as it was for "the trade" only.
I was wrong on both counts (anyone can subscribe). I finally wrote the Health and Medicine section editor and got the review. And it was worth waiting for. Thanks, LJ!
Former Shreveport Times columnist Fitzgerald, daughter of the late doctors Alice and Joe Holoubek, collects a series of letters that detail her parents’ courtship, from their first meeting at a Mayo Clinic fellowship in 1937 to their marriage two years later. These two young people awaken to their strong feelings for each other despite distance, busy internships, uncertain futures, and the illnesses that befell both. As biographer Joan Reardon ("As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto") recently showed, collections of personal correspondence can provide a fascinating slice of life and the interplay of unique personalities. The Holoubeks’ letters show them to have been enormously likable, and the book shines with their modesty, consideration for each other, and concerns for humanity.
VERDICT: This charming book is replete with enough medical references to interest any student of medical history. Other readers will fall under the spell of the music, automobiles, and social mores of the 1930s. For everyone.
But here's a case where the word anxious was right: I was anxious to read the review of my new book in Library Journal.
My publicists (former publicists--they got the ball rolling and I'm on my own now) were thrilled the trade magazine agreed to the review. A rare coup, they said.
But I didn't find it online the week of October 15, when it was due. When I did, I could only read the first few lines.
Silly me expected to get an email from Library Journal with the complete review. And I thought I couldn't get an online subscription, as it was for "the trade" only.
I was wrong on both counts (anyone can subscribe). I finally wrote the Health and Medicine section editor and got the review. And it was worth waiting for. Thanks, LJ!
Former Shreveport Times columnist Fitzgerald, daughter of the late doctors Alice and Joe Holoubek, collects a series of letters that detail her parents’ courtship, from their first meeting at a Mayo Clinic fellowship in 1937 to their marriage two years later. These two young people awaken to their strong feelings for each other despite distance, busy internships, uncertain futures, and the illnesses that befell both. As biographer Joan Reardon ("As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto") recently showed, collections of personal correspondence can provide a fascinating slice of life and the interplay of unique personalities. The Holoubeks’ letters show them to have been enormously likable, and the book shines with their modesty, consideration for each other, and concerns for humanity.
VERDICT: This charming book is replete with enough medical references to interest any student of medical history. Other readers will fall under the spell of the music, automobiles, and social mores of the 1930s. For everyone.
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