Reading and Roaming
VIEWING UPLIFTING FILM On the Basis of Sex (Amazon Prime) Somehow, I missed seeing this film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career when it was first released. This week seemed the right time. Based on RBG’s life, it isn’t a documentary, but a wonderfully satisfying success story. First in her law school class at Harvard and first in her …
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BINGEING ON CRIME DCI Banks (Amazon Prime) This detective series is a BBC production from several years ago. I think it is excellent. Alan Banks is a middle-aged chief inspector in Yorkshire with a dour demeanor and a sometimes-sour look. You’d think he’d be hardnosed, but underneath that façade, he is compassionate toward victims and diplomatic when necessary. Yet, he …
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RECENT VIEWING Soldier Father Son This New York Times documentary is moving and extremely well crafted. Brian Eisch is a single parent of Isaac and Joey and a career soldier fighting the war in Afghanistan. When he sustains a serious leg injury, he returns home to a life very different from the one he had envisioned. He’s in constant pain, …
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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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