tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716940090797849195.post8079705626309576426..comments2024-01-02T05:27:55.200-06:00Comments on Queen of All She Reads: Review for The Silver Mosaic by Michael McMenamin & Patrick McMenaminMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14610197634075184793noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716940090797849195.post-71312174956653299132017-12-01T15:35:36.929-06:002017-12-01T15:35:36.929-06:00Thanks for the review. We appreciate it. BTW, Bour...Thanks for the review. We appreciate it. BTW, Bourke is not running for office. Mattie would divorce him if he did. His father ( a real person who had no children) was the politician, a 7-term Congressman from NYC.<br /><br />As for FDR, he wasn't so much an isolationist then than a free-trader unlike like the protectionist Republicans. FDR's opposition to the boycott was based on a genuine concern that American investors and the U.S. economy would be damaged if the German economy tanked. Knowing that, we couldn't resist using the 'Catholics/Jews here at our sufferance' quote when he was trying to talk Cockran and Rabbi SIlver into abandoning the boycott, I expect your 'dictator' comment was based on our having FDR send the IRS after Rabbi SIlver. Sadly, FDR did do that to selected political enemies just as did Nixon.<br /><br />BTW, Mattie wants you to know that she lives on her own most of the time because she is on assignment living out of a suitcase. When she is in New York, she does live in both of Cockran's houses but with a live-in chaperone, i.e.,Cockran's mother-in-law from Ireland, Mary Morrisey (a devout Catholic). In deference to her, they have separate bedrooms. And regardless of where Mattie spends the night, the bedcovers in her room always look slept in. Where they sleep when they travel together is another story. In Cleveland, for example, they did have separate hotel rooms because Cockran's son Patrick was with them. Ditto for Scotland in the days before their marriage.<br /><br />And Mary Morrisey, like Churchill, can't understand why Cockran took so long to propose and marry Mattie. We explain all that in the first three books in the series.<br /><br />Finally, I (Michael) appreciate your comments on Goring being 'completely without any redeemable qualities'. <br />I do the first draft of all the Nazi villain chapters and Patrick complains from time to time that I make Goring seem too likable. I don't think I do, but it's nice to have someone else agree. <br /><br />Again, thanks very much for the review.<br />Michael & PatrickAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18443605376822875532noreply@blogger.com