Reading and Roaming
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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RECENT READING EVOCATIVE MEMOIR The Farmer’s Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm by John Connell I had read good reviews of this work and since we were originally going to Ireland this month, I was doubly attracted to it. Connell’s account of the months from January to June working on his father’s farm in County Longford delivering …
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RECENT READING: SCHIZOPHRENIA Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker I have always been interested in what makes people tick. In college, that motivated me to take both the introductory psychology course and also an advanced course in abnormal psych. This was the late 1960’s when so-called “refrigerator mothers” were responsible for causing …
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COVID-19 & STAYING HOME Other than one trip to the supermarket, we have not left our island neighborhood for the past week. We are fortunate to be having gorgeous weather (sunny and warm) and have walked our boulevard each morning and then gone to the pool in the late afternoon—always mindful of keeping an appropriate distance …
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