Reading and Roaming
FAMILY DYNAMICS IN FICTION Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett’s latest book is just out and it’s a good one. Part of it is built around Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, long a staple of high school English classes. When I was that age and we read Wilder’s play, I thought it tedious and mostly boring. Later in life, I …
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For this sunny Sunday, I’m sharing a few photos from here and there in Florida. I liked this beaten up rowboat artfully left on the edge of Sarasota Bay. Hibiscus flowers abound in this tropical climate, and pink is a favorite. Less common is the Tree of Gold (Tabebuia) which flowers forth as early as …
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FARNSWORTH AT 75 One of our favorite places to visit while in Maine is the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Aside from their extension collection of works by three generations of the Wyeth Family, they have wonderful special exhibitions. We hoped we’d see the Edward Hopper/Andrew Wyeth exhibit, but it was only up for a short time, and we …
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WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED I set myself a goal of reading 12 books from the summer reading list I created. True to form, I did not read all the books on the list, but I read some other good books in addition. Here’s my reading report. I did well on the fiction side and read seven of the …
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