This book was fun to read and discuss. It made us all want to get our own bus and travel. The descriptions of the places Doreen visited and the people she met and visited were insightful but also full of witty observations. We loved talking to the author on speaker phone and loved going out armed with her martini recipes to enjoy sampling them at a local restaurant.

This was a look at the effects of war on the nurses who treated the wounded and dying. Our group has members from 35 to 80. Our discussion was really interesting since we had members who lived through these times and ones who only knew it as history.

Beautifully writing about two dark subjects,dog fighting and a hurricane. But through the dark events the love and support of a poor family trying to survive shines through. Their lives are very hard but they have forged loving bonds with friends and families and that's what the story is really about.

The stories were interesting but seemed more like they belonged in a magazine than a book. There was nothing to really discuss,