Kate’s 2¢: “Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it”

   by Brian Murphy

“Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it”

   by Brian Murphy

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Maritime history is rife with ships that sunk with so few survivors. I enjoyed this well-researched true story  of one of the last sailing ships sans steam.. 

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A story of tragedy at sea, where every desperate act meant life or death.

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than 100 passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly, an iceberg tore the ship asunder, and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and 13 souls. Only one would survive. This is his story.

As they started their nine days adrift more than 400 miles off Newfoundland, the castaways – an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts – began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship’s log survived.

Using Nye’s firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship’s logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that 13 people suffered adrift on the cold, gray Atlantic. Adrift brings listeners to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life-saver or life-taker.

Toula Vlahou – News Editor – The Wall Street Journal

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Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it DB92399

Murphy, Brian; Vlahou, Toula Reading time: 9 hours, 24 minutes.

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Travel

Journalist recounts the ordeal of passengers on the John Rutledge, which struck an iceberg and sank en route from Liverpool to New York in 1856. Draws on accounts left by the sole survivor, Thomas W. Nye, to describe the turmoil experienced by passengers on the only lifeboat discovered. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now”    by James Shapiro

“Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now”

   by James Shapiro

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   A lengthy read, but quite interesting.

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James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1985, teaching Shakespeare and other topics, and he has published widely on Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture.

Life[edit]

Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Midwood High School. He obtained his B.A. at Columbia University in 1977, Master’s degree in 1978 and Ph.D. at University of Chicago in 1982. After teaching at Dartmouth College and Goucher College, Shapiro joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1985. He taught as a Fulbright lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University (1988–1989) and served as the Samuel Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London (1998).

Shapiro has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Huntington Library, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for his publications and academic activities. He has written for numerous periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, and The Daily Telegraph. In 2006, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow as well as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Shapiro won the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize as well as the 2006 Theatre Book Prize for his work 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which Robert Nye described as “powerful” in Literary Review, set apart by Shapiro’s precise and engrossing commentary on the sea-change in Shakespeare’s language during the year 1599.[2][3] He also won the 2011 George Freedley Memorial Award, given by the Theatre Library Association, for his study of the Shakespeare authorship question, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, which has been described as the “definitive treatment” debunking the Oxfordian theory.[4] The same year Shapiro was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His book, “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606”, published in hardback in 2015, was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography[5][circular reference] as well as the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.[6] Shapiro presented a three-part series on BBC Four called The King & the Playwright: A Jacobean History about Shakespeare, King James VI and I and the Jacobean era.[7]

In 2023, his 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare won the Baillie Gifford Prize’s “Winner of Winners” award.[8][9]

He is married, has a son, and lives in New York City.[10]

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Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now DB92092

Shapiro, James; Clinton, Bill Reading time: 26 hours, 10 minutes.

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Drama

Literature

Collection of essays regarding the role of William Shakespeare’s works in America from the revolution to the twenty-first century. Contributors include John Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Robert Frost, Toshio Mori, Langston Hughes, Jane Smiley, and more. Includes a foreword by former president Bill Clinton. 2014.

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Kate’s 2¢: “A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo

“A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I’ve read several stories featuring Kate Burkholder.  I like the wholesomeness of them, if you can say murder is wholesome. The characters are real and their actions have reactions. As for the sequencing of these stories, the first one was out of chronological order, which bothered me. I like things to be linear.

   Kathleen McInerney did a good job of narrating these short stories.

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A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection DB109583

Castillo, Linda. Reading time: 10 hours, 6 minutes.

Read by Kathleen McInerney.

Short Stories

Suspense Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

“New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a “master of the genre” (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. Now, together for the first time in print, |A Simple Murder| features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder. While on vacation with her partner John Tomasetti in LONG LOST, Kate discovers that the old house where they’re staying is haunted by a girl who disappeared decades before…. An abandoned baby is discovered on the Amish bishop’s front porch in A HIDDEN SECRET, and Kate is called in to investigate. SEEDS OF DECEPTION unearths the secrets of Kate Burkholder’s own Amish past—and lays the groundwork for her future career in law enforcement. In the midst of a power outage in Painters Mill, a teenage girl is attacked at an Amish party in ONLY THE LUCKY. IN DARK COMPANY is the story of an injured woman with amnesia who seeks Kate’s help in trying to remember her attacker’s identity…and her

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Kate’s 2¢: “Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston

“Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Among the many characters introduced in the beginning of this story, I suspect you, as I did, will be able to guess who the murderer is.

   I enjoyed the story and look forward to following Lewellen Ferris in Houston’s Mystery series. I wonder if Kathy Kerrigan will continue to read this series as the books are released.

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Victoria Houston (b. March 25, 1945) is an American writer. She is the author of the Loon Lake Series, a series of murder mysteries. The mysteries are set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin against a background of fly fishing as well as fishing for muskie, bass, bluegill and walleyes. She has also written or co-authored over seven non-fiction books.

   Houston had been formerly married to a man nine years younger than herself, and their union led Houston to interview 40 couples in similar circumstances, resulting in the book Loving a Younger Man: How Women Are Finding and Enjoying a Better Relationship.[1][2][3] Houston lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.[4]

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Houston, Victoria. Reading time: 5 hours, 46 minutes.

Read by Kathy Kerrigan.

Mystery and Detective Stories

In the first installment of the Lew Ferris Mystery series, a string of murders leaves Police Chief Ferris and the Northwoods community of Loon Lake, Wisconsin searching for answers. Adult. Unrated.

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