Reading and Roaming
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as All Saints Day. The evening before was dubbed All Hallows Eve which later became Halloween. Whether you honor saints or celebrate with pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts and candy corn, have a wonderful day! FLIGHT AND SO MUCH MORE Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead I’ll start right off by …
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NEW BEGINNINGS As the saying goes, you can’t go home again. But you can go visit. We spent a wonderful day in Bethlehem at Lehigh University celebrating the inauguration of Lehigh’s 15th president, Joe Helble. The campus looked lovely, and the ceremony had the requisite pomp prompting misty eyes. The Chief Penguin and I were pleased to see and chat …
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A FORTHCOMING NOVEL INDIAN WOMEN AND RELIGIOUS POLITICS Honor by Thrity Umrigar I received this novel as an Advance Reading Copy (ARC) through BookBrowse, an e-mail newsletter that I recently discovered. It will be published in January 2022. I devoured the book in a day and a half and loved it! Indian American journalist Smita reports on gender …
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This week’s blog brings together several compelling works. One is a musical related to 9/11 while the other two are books. One book is a wonderful novel about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, while the other is a cancer memoir, painful yet ultimately redeeming. POWERFUL VIEWING: Remembering 9/11 Come from Away (Apple TV+) I …
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