Violets for Mister B

by Margaret Jensen (Contributor)

TRADE PB

156 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1988

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I appreciated Margaret Jensen's homespun account of her years as a young nurse, providing the best care she could without the benefits of our current technology and research. I found this to be a book from which I could select chapters to read to my aunt during visits to her in the nursing home. For my own taste, however, it was a little too moralistic, with not enough room to chew on issues and form my own opinions.

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book took only a few hours to read. I enjoyed the humor and encouragement of a simpler day. however, the book seemed scattered to me. when we go from the graduation and marriage of a young nurse and skip all the way to the days when she has six grandchildren. I felt that we should have had more to fill in that huge gap and that the stories could have been ordered better.

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

5 minutes later:
Another book from my grandmothers collection.

An interesting story, or series of stories perhaps about the authors career as a nurse starting in the 1930s all the way to her retirement.

Another one of those books that helps me understand her better and give me a new perspective on life and nursing back then.