Reading and Roaming
NOVEL ADVENTURES WOMEN & MEDICINE Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati If you’re a historical novel junkie and you like medical minutiae, then the sequel to Donati’s earlier tome, The Gilded Hour, might be just the perfect diversion. Set in the 1880’s in New York, specifically Greenwich Village and environs, it’s the continuing tale of two female …
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READING FASCINATING WOMAN Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg History has not been kind to James Polk, the unpopular president known for his Manifest Destiny policy and the U.S.-Mexican War of the 1840’s. He only served one term in office and his widow outlived him by more than 40 years. Sarah Polk, …
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RECENT READING EVOCATIVE MEMOIR The Farmer’s Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm by John Connell I had read good reviews of this work and since we were originally going to Ireland this month, I was doubly attracted to it. Connell’s account of the months from January to June working on his father’s farm in County Longford delivering …
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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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