Reading and Roaming
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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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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