Reading and Roaming
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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MOVIES—MEN AT WORK, PHYSICS & MUSIC Oppenheimer ($5.99 on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, et al) Oppenheimer, one of the big films of 2023, is an almost mesmerizing portrayal of one individual’s huge impact on history. Physicist Oppenheimer was a complex man and an intriguing one. Brilliance, coupled with ego and drive, propelled him in overseeing the development of the …
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RECENT NOVEL: LARGER THAN LIFE An American Beauty by Shana Abe An American Beauty, Abe’s recent “novel of the Gilded Age” is fascinating historical fiction. Belle Yarrington was a child of poverty. Left a widow, her mother Catherine struggled to feed and clothe her five children. When Belle was fifteen, she arranged for Belle to work …
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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 …
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