Reading and Roaming
FEEL GOOD MOVIE Downton Abbey: A New Era The characters in the original Downton Abbey TV series, are the favorites of many, me included. This latest movie, the second one, brings everyone together again prompted by Tom Branson’s wedding to Lucy. There are several children running around, Lady Violet is hanging on, just, and Lady Mary has grown into her …
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RECENT VIEWING INTERWOVEN LIVES IN A CAR CRASH Collision (Amazon Prime) Collision is a British police series from 2009. The Chief Penguin and I decided to watch it because it stars Douglas Henshall of Shetland fame. A traffic accident involving 12 cars occurs on a superhighway and three people die. Detective Inspector John Tolin (a young Henshall) and Inspector Ann …
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FEMALE CRIME FIGHTERS International Women’s Day was this week on March 8th. It seems appropriate, therefore, to focus on women in this post. In the olden days, TV detectives and police officers were pretty much always white men. It’s gratifying and fun to see women—brown, white, Indian, and Irish—as the lead characters in recent crime …
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INTIMATE PORTRAIT The Chancellor by Kati Marton Members of my local book group enjoyed reading Marton’s portrayal of Angela Merkel. It’s an accessible biography of an intensely private woman in a prominent public position. It isn’t a comprehensive biography and does not provide detailed analysis of some of Merkel’s questionable decisions and actions. And the author is perhaps too …
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