Reading and Roaming
WATCHING Family Business (Acorn) This French series features an all-female legal firm practicing family law. Think marriage contracts, divorces, custody issues, and adoption. Two of the three lawyers are a mother, Astrid, and her daughter, Audrey, plus Sofia, the second partner. Both partners are single, while Audrey has two children and a somewhat hapless husband. The cases are serious, but …
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VIEWING: CRIME IN THE UK Shetland (BritBox) Jimmy Perez is back! I missed the Scottish crime series Shetland, when it went into hiatus after five seasons. I was delighted to discover that Season 6 is now available on BritBox, not sure about on other online services. New episodes are released on Tuesdays. The Chief Penguin and I eagerly watched the first …
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MASTER WORK Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe For anyone who’s read Radden Keefe’s book about the Irish Troubles, Say Nothing, you know him as a nonfiction writer who draws you in with meticulous detail and creates a novel-like reading experience. His latest work, Empire of Pain, is equally meticulous and an absolutely …
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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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