Reading and Roaming
A FORTHCOMING NOVEL INDIAN WOMEN AND RELIGIOUS POLITICS Honor by Thrity Umrigar I received this novel as an Advance Reading Copy (ARC) through BookBrowse, an e-mail newsletter that I recently discovered. It will be published in January 2022. I devoured the book in a day and a half and loved it! Indian American journalist Smita reports on gender …
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This week’s blog brings together several compelling works. One is a musical related to 9/11 while the other two are books. One book is a wonderful novel about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, while the other is a cancer memoir, painful yet ultimately redeeming. POWERFUL VIEWING: Remembering 9/11 Come from Away (Apple TV+) I …
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Addendum to Part 1: Contemporary Authors Richard Ford The author of short stories, novels, and nonfiction, Richard Ford is probably best known for his four novels featuring Frank Bascombe. Bascombe first appears in The Sportswriter (1986) and next in Ford’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Independence Day, published in 1995, then in two later novels. I read and very much enjoyed Independence Day. Richard …
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COMETH FALL The past few days have been breezy and cool with some sun. The light is different, the air is clearer and drier. Fall is sneaking up on us. Masses of goldenrod line the roadway and here and there a lone red maple leaf lies in the dirt. I see only tall pines when I look around, but …
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