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PROMPT: WITH EYES

All eyes on you every night on your TV show can sometimes be hazardous to your health as Robin Trainer has found out.

All the death threats and incidents happening to her at the TV station….hate notes, voodoo dolls, poison-laced makeup, drug-laced brownies, what else can happen?

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Tom Brokaw‘s book telling the story of his life and especially talking about his cancer diagnosis. The year of chemotherapy with lots of doctors visits. He explains how he had been living his life his way feeling pretty lucky. Intertwined he tells some of the highlights of his reporting years and his worldwide travels. A well-written book.

Interesting story and characters. Perhaps a little long but mostly fast paced. Fulfills Washington DC for my #52mysteries reading project. First in a series, but it‘s a little cynical and depressing for me to continue. I can read about murder and mayhem in other cities, but for my own city I just need to turn on the local news.

Anyway, this was one of the books I planned to finish for #dashingdecember but better late than never!

I love foreign journalists‘ memoirs and this one is fantastic. Readable, vulnerable, intense and informative, Ferguson showcases her life‘s work in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq- the beauty, the people and the tragedy. She has more courage than I could muster, and it makes me be reminded of how much to appreciate those who tell the stories of civilians in war.

In this interesting memoir, Ferguson shares stories from her time as a war reporter in the Middle East and Afghanistan. She shares the difficulties of breaking in as a freelance reporter in Yemen and her award winning coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan for PBS. Her unstable home life and childhood during the Troubles in Northern Ireland gave her the fortitude to risk it all grabbing for each rung of her career. Great reflections!

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Movie: Vertigo

This is from the library book club... its rare for a non fiction book to be chosen.
I'm not hugely keen so far, it's quite disjointed in the writing. I feel it could be a really interesting read though.

This was a good book about ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff‘s traumatic brain injury while covering the war in Iraq when an improvised explosive device went off near the tank he was riding in. It is written from the alternating points of view of Bob and his wife Lee. It is the story of their marriage, his recovery, and the strength of both of them as they persevered through this experience.

How to lose a guy in 10 days remade into a book! Maybe it was because it was a remake of my favorite movie, this book didn‘t completely live up to the hype I had hoped for. Regardless, a good rom com

Jake and Jane have a tenuous new relationship, but they‘re both working on the same 3 cases. A problem when one of you is a police detective and the other is a news reporter. An interesting read/listen as the puzzle(s) unfold.