Reading and Roaming
READING There was a column about reading in the recent Wall Street Journal Report: The Future. I was pleased to see this, but think that Walter Mosley could have made a stronger case overall for the value of reading. Nonetheless, he did write the following: “There’s nothing like reading. That interpretation through the nonconcrete medium of …
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GEMMA, MAISIE, AND CLARE My mother devoured mysteries. I think when she was raising her four children they were pure escape. She would read a Crime Club mystery in an evening and then read several more over the rest of a week—all of that required frequent trips to the public library. I am more selective …
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READING WOMEN Our local paper included an article from the Washington Post by Alyssa Rosenberg about reading a year’s worth of books written by women. That’s a fine idea, but she carried it a step further and did a pair of books each month for a total of 24. I was intrigued and checked to …
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TIDY TIDBITS: Film & Theater This was a week when we gorged on culture, films especially. The Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) is celebrating its 17th year, and over the course of ten days 270 films, a mix of documentaries and feature films, are screened. We were late getting tickets, having been away, but still managed …
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