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Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes

August 16, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Bingo category – Mind Farm is the accounting of a year on a family farm in central Missouri.  Tom, Sally, and their children raise corn, soybeans, and hogs on this farm, which is actually a patchwork of smaller farms.  The year is mid-1980s, so there are the Reagan/Clinton farm policies to be dealt with, as well as issues such as how the land can be plowed, what to do about storage if there isn’t enough, and the ever temperamental weather situation.  The fact is that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Damn that's hard work, Farming in the 80s, Missouri, Richard Rhodes, slice of life

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Damn that's hard work, Farming in the 80s, Missouri, Richard Rhodes, slice of life ·
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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

January 5, 2018 by Kitkat 2 Comments

Hedy Lamarr was a fascinating woman.  She was billed as “the most beautiful woman in the world”, and she truly was gorgeous, but she was also brilliant, creative, and confident.  Not that men wanted her for anything but her looks while she was alive. Hedy was born in Vienna in 1914 to a wealthy banker and his wife.  She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an actress, and by the time she was a teenager, she was on the stage.  After […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Richard Rhodes

Kitkat's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Richard Rhodes ·
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