Into the B section!

I love this book We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg. I wasn't really sure of it at first because of the subject matter but I was enthralled eventually and absolutely captivated by the time I was finished. It's a story of a woman who contracts polio while pregnant but doesn't know until she is rushed to the hospital in distress. She gives birth while in an iron lung which would under normal circumstances spell death for the baby. She decided to raise the child and did so while in a wheel chair and on a respirator. She had help from Social Services but not much so she had to fudge a bit on her income. Nevertheless she manages to raise the child with help. The story is told through the eyes of the child. Loved the story.  

The B Section!!!!

Finally got to the Bs, yeh!!! I started with Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette. Couldn't finish it because I couldn't stand the thought of referring to a woman as a spinster. She was a supposedly homely woman with attitude, but the reference to her as a spinster or someone to be pitied was too much. So the next book is by a British author using his pseudonym Benjamin Black. His real name is John Banville and he writes mysteries under that name. This book Christine Falls is set in Dublin. It involves a pathologist who does love his drink and who discovers his brother-in-law is involved in something not quite right. His brother-in-law is a beloved doctor who delivers babies. And this is part of the problem that brings the pathologist to realize he can't give up trying to find out what happened in his lab. Good story & unusual. Lots of soap opera, but intirguing to read.