Reading and Roaming
NATURE My sister and brother-in-law, an avid birder and an apprentice birder (self-named), visited us this week and the focus was on birds. It’s the off season for good sightings, but my sister kept a list of birds seen in Florida anyway. I think she got to forty before they departed. Lots of shore birds …
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NEW YORK The streets of the Big Apple were thick with tourists and the weather was sunny and warm. A pleasant change of pace from our quiet island life. We walked briskly down 6th Avenue, joined the High Line at 23rd Street, and then decamped to Chelsea Market, an adventure in food and eating we had …
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FILM I recommend Far from the Madding Crowd! Beautiful countryside, beautifully filmed, and Carey Mulligan is a lovely Bathsheba, intelligent, definite and almost elfin. And the men—Francis Troy has the required rakish dark hair and eyes, Boldwood (don’t you love Hardy’s choice of names!) is older, but not as sinister seeming as in the novel, …
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WHAT I’VE READ RECENTLY Nicole Mones is an engaging writer. Her background includes running a textile business importing wool from China, something she did for 18 years which means she writes knowledgeably and convincingly about that society and its culture. Several years ago I read her novel, The Last Chinese Chef. I absolutely loved this book, …
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