{"id":12760,"date":"2020-04-17T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:40:23","slug":"a-kiss-for-midwinter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12760","title":{"rendered":"A Kiss for Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Kiss for Midwinter<\/a><\/em> (2012) Courtney Milan<\/a> (Brothers Sinister)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in England in 1863<\/p>\n

I re-read the previous book in this series because I was wanting to re-read this story.<\/p>\n

Dr Jonas Grantham wanted more than anything to become a doctor. Right before he left for medical school, he followed the town doctor around to learn, and for the promise of taking over his practice after he completed medical school. <\/p>\n

But when on those rounds he doesn’t speak up when he feels the doctor is making a terrible mistake, he regrets his silence for years.<\/p>\n

(H)e didn\u2019t say anything. He didn\u2019t speak because he was young. He didn\u2019t speak because he doubted his memory of the pharmacopeia. And most thorny of all, Jonas kept his silence because Parwine had offered him his practice once he graduated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr Grandtham is awesome.<\/p>\n

Carrying a child was hard on a woman\u2019s body, and eight children, delivered ten months after one another, left a woman no room to recover.
\n…
\n\u201cThe stuff that babes are made of comes from your own body, Mrs. Hall.\u201d He straightened and put away his stethoscope. \u201cIf the babe needs the material of bones, it comes from you. If it needs the material of skin, it comes from you. There\u2019s a reason you\u2019re losing your teeth, Mrs. Hall.\u201d <\/p>\n

She looked away. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to take a rest from bearing children. This babe likely won\u2019t kill you. The next one might.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lydia is loved by her family. No matter what else, she knows this truth.<\/p>\n

One of Lydia\u2019s first memories was playing on the floor of her father\u2019s study. Her nurse had darted in, grabbing her up with a flood of apologies and a scold for Lydia. <\/p>\n

\u201cCan\u2019t you see your father\u2019s busy?\u201d she\u2019d remonstrated. <\/p>\n

But her father had simply shrugged. \u201cIf you take her away every time I\u2019m busy,\u201d he\u2019d said placidly, \u201cI\u2019ll never see her. She can stay.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Lydia also believes that Dr Grandtham judges her for her past, for her mistakes, for her levity.<\/p>\n

This is just such a wonderful story. Lydia is amazing, struggling and working so hard to be cheerful and kind, regardless of everything. <\/p>\n

Lydia knew she had a few faults of her own, and one of the things she knew she was shockingly good at was telling lies to herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Dr Grantham is wonderful–blunt and honest and a fan of science.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d been seduced by the stories\u2014 the stories of John Snow saving hundreds of lives by careful observation, of men who noticed the world around them and cared and thought, men who set aside irrationality in favor of cures supported by statistical research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a short novella, and it’s marvelous.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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