Reading and Roaming
SERIES ON TELEVISION MEDICOS IN THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service (Prime Video) \ If you like medical shows and unusual cases in remote locations, then you might enjoy this Australian series. The main base is in Broken Hill in southeastern New South Wales. Much of the area is desert. In a medical emergency, the most …
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WONDERFUL THEATER! Born with Teeth (Asolo Repertory Theatre) Born with Teeth is a recent play (2022) by Liz Duffy Adams. It debuted at the Alley Theatre in Houston and is now being presented around the country. It’s a historical play with just one setting and two actors in three scenes set in a London tavern in 1592 and 1593. The …
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BOOK OF THE WEEK While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger Meg Kissinger, a noted journalist who spent several decades covering mental illness issues, bares her soul and that of her family in While You Were Out, a candid and raw account of her family’s …
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RECENT READING: WIVES IN THE 1960’S Absolution by Alice McDermott Set in Saigon in 1963, Absolution focuses on the lives of several wives of Navy officers. Tricia, just 23, has only been married a short time to lawyer Peter on loan to navy intelligence. She is taken up by the somewhat older, more sophisticated Charlene, mother of three. Charlene is forceful, …
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