Reading and Roaming
This summer, reading has been a primary activity. This month I branched out with some targeted political action. BEACH READING The Ambassador’s Wife by Jennifer Steil Free spirited artist Miranda meets and marries Finn, an upstanding, conventional British career diplomat, and becomes an ambassador’s wife in a fictional Middle Eastern Muslim country. Adjusting to the constraints of …
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NOVEL ADVENTURES WOMEN & MEDICINE Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati If you’re a historical novel junkie and you like medical minutiae, then the sequel to Donati’s earlier tome, The Gilded Hour, might be just the perfect diversion. Set in the 1880’s in New York, specifically Greenwich Village and environs, it’s the continuing tale of two female …
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VIEWING RELIGION AND LAW Grantchester (PBS Masterpiece) Season 5 of Grantchester is now airing on PBS, and it’s the second season with Will Davenport as the vicar replacing Sydney. If you are Grantchester addicted, like we are, you can binge watch the whole season on PBS Passport. Which is exactly what we did this week! Initially, I wondered if vicar Will …
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READING FASCINATING WOMAN Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg History has not been kind to James Polk, the unpopular president known for his Manifest Destiny policy and the U.S.-Mexican War of the 1840’s. He only served one term in office and his widow outlived him by more than 40 years. Sarah Polk, …
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