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Hello, Elle!
It is chilly here!
I ordered "In Harm's Way" by Doug Stanton.
It's about the USS Indianapolis.
Gets excellent reviews which is encouraging.
There is another one I am interested in, about a man who goes to live in Huddersfield.
"I'm A Stranger Here Myself", (the same title as a Bill Bryson book!)
I am going to find out a bit more about it, though.
Well done on your hair dryer!
How did your daughter get on with her broken 'phone?
Any luck with insurers?

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, cold here, too, but at least still dry!
I do not know much about the USS Indianapolis, other than the shark attacks on the crew after the sinking?
I do not know where I got that from.....
You should enjoy the book.. I know you like learning historical facts.
Now here's another quandary about duplicated book titles..... "I'm A Stranger Here Myself".
This is Bill's "Notes from a Big Country" isn't it? (or something similar?)
I cannot understand why identical titles are allowed?
And why did the man in the other book want to go and live in Huddersfield, I wonder?
All I know of Huddersfield is that it is in West Yorkshire!
Somewhere between Manchester and Leeds!
My daughter spoke to EE about her broken phone and I think they offered her some sort of deal.....
but the reception was very poor( she was using the "old" phone) and I couldn't hear her properly.....
She said that she would tell me all about it tomorrow!

For a time, Bill Bryson lived not a long way from us, In Kirkby Malham. He introduced us (in print) to the "Malhamdale Wave", which we have since seen many times - the raisiing of one finger on the steering wheel!

Hello, Elle!
I don't know much more than you about the Indianapolis.
Maybe you heard it mentioned in the film "Jaws"?
They had just delivered vital parts for the Hiroshima bomb, very hush-hush.
The captain was unfairly blamed by the Navy for not zig-zagging to avoid torpedoes.
And he killed himself many years later.
That's all I know.
The other book is by Deric Longden, and I think/hope it is a humorous one, something like Miss Peckwitt's.
He and his wife go to live in Huddersfield and have a lot of cats.
I do not know either of the authors, but at one time I did not know Bill Bryson!
I am with EE, and find them reasonable to deal with.
Hope your daughter gets a satisfactory resolution.

Hi Rusty
Is it "The cat who came in from the cold"? You have to remember that his wife has very impaired vision!

No, Chris,
That's another book.
This is "I'm A Stranger Here Myself".
Yes, I have read that he was married twice and one wife, as you say, was practically blind.
His other wife had something wrong with her, too, but I forget what.
This is an author I just happened across yesterday and thought I may try one of his books.

I have just discovered he is dead.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/10160973/Deric-Longden.html

Hi, Rusty!
It is so many years since I saw "Jaws" - and read the book by Peter Benchley - that I actually remember very little detail!
You know far more than I do about the USS Indianapolis.
But I have heard of the author Deric Longden.
However, not in connection with the book that you are considering buying, but the one that Chris has mentioned..."The Cat who came in from the Cold".
I came across that some time ago in one of my browsings.....
I think my attention was drawn to it by the similarity of its title to "The Spy who came in from the Cold" by John le Carre.
A wonderful film , too, with Richard Burton in the title role.
Did you see the film...or read the book?

Hello, Elle!
I thought "Jaws" was a very good book.
I know just a little about the Indianapolis, but the Japanese commander of the submarine who sunk it, spoke up for the American captain at an inquiry.
He said he would have sunk the Indianapolis no matter what, even if it was zig-zagging.
There were no protection vessels with the ship, which made her an easier target, which looks like a blunder by the Navy, but I look forward to finding out more.
I do not think I have read any John le Carre books, or seen the film.
I suspect Deric's title is a play on le Carre's?
There seem to be a lot of cats in Deric Longden's books?

Hi, Rusty!
John le Carre was only a pen name, but I cannot remember the author's real name.
He wrote spy stories...I should think his most renowned books, apart from "The Spy Who came in from the Cold", are probably "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People".
I have the books somewhere.....I haven't come across them yet during my clear out!
I don't know about Deric Longden's writing about cats...it is only the title of that one book that stuck in my mind!