{"id":22696,"date":"2024-01-12T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:39:39","slug":"a-kiss-for-midwinter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22696","title":{"rendered":"A Kiss for Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"A<\/a>Set in England in 1862<\/p>\n

He hadn\u2019t chosen to become a doctor so that he could foretell the death of children. He\u2019d been seduced by the stories\u2014the 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

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

He didn\u2019t know the name of the disease she had, but he knew its symptoms. A man who wouldn\u2019t breed his mare two seasons in a row for fear of causing her an injury would be at his wife within weeks of childbirth. He\u2019d plant his seed in a field that had not lain fallow for years, and like an overproduced field, the wife inevitably failed. Her back stooped. Her skin changed. Her eyes yellowed. Teeth fell out; bones that were once strong would snap at the smallest slip on icy pavement. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lucas Grantham squared his shoulders as best he could. \u201cYou <\/em>should have done something?\u201d he echoed, his voice arctic. \u201cIt is my home, my responsibility. Did I raise you to talk to me in that tone of voice? Tell me, did I?\u201d <\/p>\n

Jonas set a bowl of soup and a piece of bread in front of his father. \u201cYou didn\u2019t raise me to mince words in the face of stupidity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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