Reading and Roaming
RECENT VIEWING Soldier Father Son This New York Times documentary is moving and extremely well crafted. Brian Eisch is a single parent of Isaac and Joey and a career soldier fighting the war in Afghanistan. When he sustains a serious leg injury, he returns home to a life very different from the one he had envisioned. He’s in constant pain, …
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READING BIOGRAPHY When it comes to nonfiction, I read more biography than anything else. I find historical biography often compelling and am regularly drawn into memoirs written by contemporaries. The past few weeks, I’ve been dipping into two works in this genre. The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson Novelist Diane …
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SUMMER READING The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow Anyone who’s read Austen’s Pride and Prejudice may recall Mary, the youngest Bennet girl and the one who gets the least positive attention. She is smart, but she’s plain and outspoken, and she wears glasses. In this novel, Hadlow takes up Mary’s cause and projects a life for her after the …
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This week I”m sharing just a few photos I’ve taken around the greater Boothbay Harbor region. All photos ©JWFarrington (some rights reserved)
