My Reading Experiment (Book #14) - Silver Wings
Target: 100 books
Current: 14 books
Remember when everyone changed their Facebook profile picture into a beautiful rainbow? This was just after the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of gay marriages. Great thing, absolutely great thing, if you ask me. As far as I am concerned, your freedom stops with your nose. It goes no further. And it definitely cannot encroach upon another's freedom to marry. This is all the more relevant today, what with the case where a county clerk in Kentucky refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, and was subsequently jailed for a few days for contempt of court. My personal views are that you don't let your faith interfere with your work. If it does, and if the differences are irreconcilable, then you either quit your job, or you rally enough support to overthrow the government ruling through proper legal channels. Thankfully for us, support for marriage equality is something that more people, not less, are advocating. I think the world's greatest solution to gain acceptance from everyone for marriage equality is to make them watch Modern Family. How someone could possibly watch an entire episode and manage to not have their socks charmed off by Mitch and Cam is something truly beyond me!
Anyway, all that blathering aside, instead of turning my profile picture into a beautiful rainbow, I read a book. The following one.
#14
Silver Wings
- H.P. Munro
Liked it, Fiction, Lesbian love, 1940's, planes, flying, WASP, military, Feel good
I loooove love stories. Even sappy ones. Erich Segal, Danielle Steele, Little Women.... and now apparently, books like Silver Wings. Honest to God, I don't see why same sex love has come under the fire so often, and for so long. Kind of sad. This book is mostly set in 1940's America, when women were recruited to fly planes as part of the Women's Service Airforce Pilots (WASPs), around the time of the Second World War. Lily Riviera and Helen Richmond are selected into the WASP program, and are made to share a bay during training, along with four other women. You know how love stories usually go, and so it's no surprise that one thing leads to another, and Lily and Helen end up in love. Now, if that was pretty much all the book was about, then yes, it's just another sappy romance novel, but I liked this one because it talks about myriad things. Like how Lily is a Latina, and faces discrimination because of it. Or how one of the friends is in a secret inter-racial marriage. Oh, and there are women doing some serious bad-ass "manly" things like flying huge bomber jets. The book seems to be quite well researched, and I had fun reading it. I'm glad I chanced upon it.
"Lily looked over at the pilots lined up, they were accustomed to this type of welcome, and usually the noise of the engines from the bomber would ensure that they had an audience for their arrival. Then would come the shock from the male pilots that two women had completed the landing they had just witnessed. Then the posturing would happen, where they would try to either hit on her and Adrienne or show off their own flying skills."
Current: 14 books
Remember when everyone changed their Facebook profile picture into a beautiful rainbow? This was just after the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of gay marriages. Great thing, absolutely great thing, if you ask me. As far as I am concerned, your freedom stops with your nose. It goes no further. And it definitely cannot encroach upon another's freedom to marry. This is all the more relevant today, what with the case where a county clerk in Kentucky refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, and was subsequently jailed for a few days for contempt of court. My personal views are that you don't let your faith interfere with your work. If it does, and if the differences are irreconcilable, then you either quit your job, or you rally enough support to overthrow the government ruling through proper legal channels. Thankfully for us, support for marriage equality is something that more people, not less, are advocating. I think the world's greatest solution to gain acceptance from everyone for marriage equality is to make them watch Modern Family. How someone could possibly watch an entire episode and manage to not have their socks charmed off by Mitch and Cam is something truly beyond me!
Anyway, all that blathering aside, instead of turning my profile picture into a beautiful rainbow, I read a book. The following one.
#14
Silver Wings
- H.P. Munro
Liked it, Fiction, Lesbian love, 1940's, planes, flying, WASP, military, Feel good
I loooove love stories. Even sappy ones. Erich Segal, Danielle Steele, Little Women.... and now apparently, books like Silver Wings. Honest to God, I don't see why same sex love has come under the fire so often, and for so long. Kind of sad. This book is mostly set in 1940's America, when women were recruited to fly planes as part of the Women's Service Airforce Pilots (WASPs), around the time of the Second World War. Lily Riviera and Helen Richmond are selected into the WASP program, and are made to share a bay during training, along with four other women. You know how love stories usually go, and so it's no surprise that one thing leads to another, and Lily and Helen end up in love. Now, if that was pretty much all the book was about, then yes, it's just another sappy romance novel, but I liked this one because it talks about myriad things. Like how Lily is a Latina, and faces discrimination because of it. Or how one of the friends is in a secret inter-racial marriage. Oh, and there are women doing some serious bad-ass "manly" things like flying huge bomber jets. The book seems to be quite well researched, and I had fun reading it. I'm glad I chanced upon it.
"Lily looked over at the pilots lined up, they were accustomed to this type of welcome, and usually the noise of the engines from the bomber would ensure that they had an audience for their arrival. Then would come the shock from the male pilots that two women had completed the landing they had just witnessed. Then the posturing would happen, where they would try to either hit on her and Adrienne or show off their own flying skills."
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