Querida Señora Bird
by A.J. Pearce
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Novela de ficción historica simpática, pero sin mucha profundidad. Tampoco le hallé mucho humor.
Es 1941 y Londres se encuentra bajo bombardeo alemán, por todas partes arengan patriotismo y conservar la 'normalidad' para presentar buena cara ante el enemigo. Eso implica que las mujeres deben trabajar y lucir lindas y compuestas con carmin en los labios pese a cualquier dificultad.
BLURB: 1941: It takes strength to work on the docks, but the war demands all hands on deck and the women are doing their best to fill the gap.Rosie is flourishing in her role as head-welder while still keeping her double life a secret. But a dashing detective is forcing Rosie to choose between love and her duty.
Gloria is hiding her own little secret – one that if found out, could not only threaten her job, but her life.
And the shipyards are proving tougher than Polly ever imagined, while she waits for her man to return home safely.
Join the shipyard girls as they journey through the hardships of life, love and war.
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| imagen by Cecil Beaton |
BLURB: From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, “The War for Phang” is an epic, self-contained Saga event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.
A few years back, the powers that be would always outsource whatever wetwork needed doing...
...but these days, both sides are more than happy to get their own hands dirty.
I mean, the average schmuch on the street doesn't care what nightmares his leaders are green-lightning anymore, right? All he's thinking about is his next vacation (-Saga 39)
