Reading and Roaming
WHAT A HORRIBLE WEEK! American life and U.S. politics hit a new low this past week. Aside from the continuing dire news about the pandemic, there was the brutal Minneapolis killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer, followed by nights of violence in that city and mass demonstrations in others around …
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READING A CLASSIC Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Partly out of response to the recent film version, my local book group opted to re-read Little Women. Most everyone in the group had read it at least once. As a girl, I was caught up in the lives of these four sisters and was stunned when Beth died. And Jo …
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VIEWING The English Game (Netflix) This is an excellent series and great “feel good” viewing for these strange times. A whole series (6 parts) about football, (soccer, that is), you say; but I’m not a sports fan. Well, there’s so much more to this historical drama by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey. Opening in 1879, it focuses …
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NOVEL OF THE WEEK The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai was born in North Vietnam in 1973, and when she was six her family moved to the South. She received parts of her education in Australia, the UK, and Hong Kong and then returned to Vietnam to work on sustainable development. A published …
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