Reading and Roaming
COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS ET AL Fun with Our Granddaughters Our granddaughters and their parents were with us this past week. No visit would be complete without continuing tradition with some annual outings. Everything from mini golf to the botanical gardens to purchases at Sherman’s Books to one more visit to Railway Village. Of course, we …
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SUMMER READING: MY BOOK OF THE WEEK Liberty Island by Virginia Hume Set in 1900, 1910 and 1922, Liberty Island brings together the overlapping stories of Anna, spinster author of a popular children’s book, and her niece Julia, who is exuberant, wild, and never seems to fit comfortably into her environment. Rounding out the main cast are Julia’s mother, …
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WATCHING My Brilliant Career (Netflix) My Brilliant Career is a 6-part series based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Australian writer, Miles Franklin. Sybylla leaves her dirt-poor family and goes to stay with her grandmother, ostensibly to find a husband, but in her mind to experience more of the world and to become a writer …
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SUMMER READING SIBLINGS IN THE POSTWAR DUTCH COUNTRYSIDE : The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden Published in 2024, The Safekeep was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and selected for many best-book-of-the-year lists. It’s 1961, fifteen years after the end of WWII, and Isabel lives alone in the house she shared with her parents and her two brothers, Louis older, …
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