Reading and Roaming
BOOK OF THE WEEK All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley In a time of family illness and subsequent loss, Patrick Bringley found a job and solace in a place he first visited as a child with his mother. Mired in grief over his older brother’s death and only …
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BOOK OF THE WEEK While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger Meg Kissinger, a noted journalist who spent several decades covering mental illness issues, bares her soul and that of her family in While You Were Out, a candid and raw account of her family’s …
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RECENT READING: WIVES IN THE 1960’S Absolution by Alice McDermott Set in Saigon in 1963, Absolution focuses on the lives of several wives of Navy officers. Tricia, just 23, has only been married a short time to lawyer Peter on loan to navy intelligence. She is taken up by the somewhat older, more sophisticated Charlene, mother of three. Charlene is forceful, …
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BOOKS: LITERARY & MYSTERIOUS Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel Dayswork is unlike any other novel I’ve read, and I loved it. Written in a style that consists of two-to-three-line paragraphs followed by bursts of conversation and quotes from other writers, it’s quirky, fun, thoughtful, and literary, all at once. A woman academic stuck at home during …
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