This read started with a show Canadian Reader was watching ... an amazing show, she said, and one that was not airing in the U.S. (at least not then). However, I was able to find the book that inspired the series: Anzac Girls: the Extraordinary Story of our World War I Nurses, by Peter Rees. Powerful, intense, and well written this is a detailed and descriptive look at the brave women from Australia and New Zealand that served in WWI. Conditions are terrible, and go from bad to worse. It's a wonder anything could be done at all given the constant shortage of staff and supplies. Fair warning here, it is grim and sometimes almost overwhelming.

From this, Canadian Reader took me on to Coventry, by Helen Humphreys. It is November 14, 1940, a night of the "Bomber's Moon", a full moon that illuminates every building despite the town being in total black out conditions. Since it is an industrial town, it is targeted by the Germans. This is the story of the bombing raid that destroyed the town.

After these two very intense (but very good) reads I was in the mood for something lighter so was pleased to come across another of the periodicals from Centennial Presents. This time it was The Wonder of Disney: 80 Years of Animation. Walt Disney was not the best student, why, even in art class he didn't always follow instructions and put faces on the bouquet of flowers the class was drawing. Movies, and especially animation, intrigued him and it was while he was working at a commercial art studio when he met Ubbe "Ub" Iwerks. Together they would change the industry. From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (surely it would flop, who wanted to sit through 80 minutes of a cartoon?) to Frozen 2, this is a brief history of the Disney films. Nice pictures, too! ;-)

Reading Hermit with Dog