Reading and Roaming
MORE BESTS As I indicated last week, the newspaper world is full of bests. Even our local paper, Herald Tribune, offered up a selection of the best books of the year. And the New York Times seems to have gone overboard with each of its distinctive sections having its own, “The Best of 2018” edition. On Sunday, “Arts & Leisure” had …
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Some of us make lists all year long: to-do lists, grocery lists, shopping lists, and the like. I am an inveterate list maker, always have been. As was my mother so I suppose I inherited this tendency as did at least one of my sisters. It’s satisfying to create a list and then check off items as they are …
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RECENT READING VEGAS SHOWGIRL All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church This is Church’s second novel, and while I enjoyed it a lot, I think The Atomic Weight of Love is better. It is the story of Lily Decker aka Ruby Wilde, from Kansas, who becomes a Las Vegas showgirl in the 1960’s. …
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PRE-COLUMBIAN ART Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! We’re still in Santiago so no turkey for us this year, but we’ve had an absolutely marvelous time these past four weeks. Yesterday we toured the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino or the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. It’s in an historic building that was damaged by …
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