Reading and Roaming
For a change of pace this week, I’m profiling three works, a mystery novel by the clever and creative Anthony Horowitz, and two TV crime series in which the Chief Penguin and I have been immersed. One set in coastal Denmark and the other in the remote Shetland Islands DEATH BY WINE BOTTLE The Sentence …
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ART AND EATING IN BRUNSWICK For years, we’ve driven Route 1 on the outskirts of Brunswick past strip malls, fast food restaurants, and auto repair shops. We had never ventured any farther into downtown Brunswick. This week we did and discovered that Maine Street (it’s really named that) is quite charming with several blocks of shops, a …
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READING I have several recent novels set in Maine in my book stack and will be reading and commenting on them in the next few blogs. Below is the first one I’ve just finished which, after a slow start for me, I enjoyed quite a lot. I received a link to a blog post recommending 12 …
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This week’s post features two novels I recently read. One is definitely summertime fare, an absorbing love story set in and near Philadelphia. The other is yet another World War II related historical novel, but from a slightly different perspective than the recent rash of female spy novels. I found that the momentum built the …
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