Carolina Comments: January Diversions

It’s winter and the weather outside is cold and gray and sleety.  When not exercising in the gym or fulfilling our several committee assignments, the Chief Penguin and I find ourselves burrowing deep into reading or bingeing on a TV series.  Hence, this week, you have here a book and a medical drama. FABULOUS NOVEL The Correspondent by …

Tidy Tidbits: Favorite Books & A Play

PURE ESCAPISM  Crazy for You at the Asolo Theatre With music and lyrics by the Gershwin brothers, this classic of American musical theater was an afternoon of romance, some hijinks, and lots and lots of dancing!  In 1930 in a dead-end town in Nevada, earnest Bobby Child tries to revive the theater he’s been sent to shut …

Reading: Favorite Books of 2022

At the beginning of the new year, I like to look back over my list and reflect on the books I enjoyed the most and thought were the best written.  Most of them are recent works. They are novels with a few nonfiction titles tossed in.  Here are my top 10 favorite books of 2022 arranged alphabetically …