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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-2024 6:14:25 PM PDT
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In topic: 📚 📚 📚Whatcha reading, SZ? August 2024 edition 📚 📚 📚 posted by senorbrightside
In reply to: You're back! :) posted by senorbrightside
Hmm, how long has he been in Cleveland? I'm surprised I never heard of him. My mom used to go to this book fair every fall that featured Ohio writers (she was friends with Dav Pilkey because of that). I wonder if that's still a thing and if he's been around since the 1990s if she ever met him. Also...it's an Ohio thing. It's okay for someone from the state to mock it/put it down, but if anyone else does, we're going to defend! I digress. Glad you liked it.

LR has been in the Cleveland area since the late 1980s, so it's possible your mom ran into him at the book fair. He's written 19 books featuring private eye Milan Jacovich, who lives in Cleveland Heights right above The Mad Greek (a real restaurant, but I don't think there's an apartment above it...and if there is, I'm assuming the owner lives there).

And yes, you're exactly right. Clevelanders can make fun of Cleveland--and we do--but everyone else better keep Cleveland's name out of their mouth <g>.

Ehh, I think I'll pass, but it's always fun reading about local places. Lakeside Chataqua doesn't ring a bell for me and I grew up so close to that area (south of Sandusky).

I hadn't heard of it either until just a few years ago. It's one of those snooty gated communities where outsiders pay to spend the day there (and I'm not talking just for parking). When bff and I visited, we spent some time on the pier, had lunch at the historic old hotel, got some ice cream, walked around the neighborhood, browsed at a few shops and spent a considerable amount of time in the community pool (we really liked that the lifeguards force the kids out of the pool for 15 minutes every hour so us crotchety old farts can enjoy having the pool to ourselves). When we left, we agreed we were glad we went but have no desire to go back.

Lakeside Chautauqua... [link]

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash - This is a fictionalized telling of the true story of Ella May, a single mother working in the mills in North Carolina in the late 1930s and being grossly underpaid. When the union comes to town, she joins the movement but at what cost? It was interesting to read this at a time in my life when I also consider myself underpaid...but my working conditions are so much safer than Ella May's. I was riveted by her story, plowing through at breakneck speed, and it motivated me to do a Google search about her life. I found out the song she sang at the union rallies--"A Mill Mother's Lament"--was real and gained a modicum of fame when Arlo Guthrie re-recorded it in the 1960s. Solid A.

Hmm, I'm pretty pro union and this one sounds interesting. I may have to check it out!

It was a great read! I breezed through it in just a few days and had trouble putting it down.

I do have a friend who actually would be one of those very specific readers, lol. (Canadian History professor whose speciality is the 1960s.) If there was one for the 80s and 90s....

If your friend doesn't already have the book, I'd be happy to send him my copy!


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