Worth Reading.

The Alice Network, Kate Quinn,  2017, a novel, is a good companion to A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy  Who Helped win WWII, Sonia Purnell.
The former is a historical novel about an effective female spy network in France during WW I. The later is the true story American, Virginia Hall, who was a very effective spy for England, serving in France during WW II.
     "Alice" is well told with much historical merit and, like "A Woman Of No Importance', a paean to competent women suffering under prejudice because of their gender. "Alice" is a suspenseful page turner very well told.


    Here's a bit of poetry.

When you, that at this moment are to me
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"When you, that at this moment are to me
Dearer than words on paper, shall depart,
And be no more the warder of my heart,
Whereof again myself shall hold the key;
And be no more—what now you seem to be—
The sun, from which all excellences start
In a round nimbus, nor a broken dart
Of moonlight, even, splintered on the sea;
I shall remember only of this hour—
And weep somewhat, as now you see me weep—
The pathos of your love, that, like a flower,
Fearful of death yet amorous of sleep,
Droops for a moment and beholds, dismayed,
The wind whereon its petals shall be laid."

Takk for alt,

Al

Picture: every class begins with the students standing, waiing me and saying "Good morning teacher how are you?" 

"Good morning teacher, how are you?"