Reading and Roaming
ON THE MAINE COAST After the humidity and heat of Florida, the Maine coast is a welcome change—even when you have several days of gray skies, continual fog, and temperatures that don’t climb out of the 60’s. We’re on an island here and that means it’s more susceptible to foggy, misty conditions. Sometimes just going …
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MEANDERING IN PORTLAND We had a day and a half to ramble up and down Portland’s red brick streets and to explore the shops and restaurants of this New England center of cuisine and culture. The sidewalks of slightly uneven rectangular red bricks add charm and old world authenticity while echoing the 19th century building …
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SUMMER READING Like the proverbial “eyes bigger than her stomach,” I always have ambitious plans for how many and which books I will read over the summer. Several stacks of them in fact. They are a mix of novels, mysteries, biography, and general nonfiction. And I have aspirations of re-reading some classics like Austen’s Persuasion …
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READING ROUND-UP–2017, April through June Here are the books I’ve covered in this blog in the past three months. Followed by my top five favorite books so far this year. Happy reading! MYSTERIES In this Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear NOVELS Flight Patterns by Karen White Georgia by Dawn Tripp Glory over Everything: Beyond the …
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