Reading and Roaming
SUMMER READING Here is a list of the titles I read this summer. Of these twenty-two titles, seven were on my intended summer reading list. I started and abandoned American Spy and The Power of the Dog, read one story in Lauren Groff’s Florida, and am more than a quarter of the way into Middlemarch. It’s a long book and I’m taking it …
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ON THE BIG SCREEN—WOMAN POWER It’s hard to accept how sexist the sailing world was in 1990. The Maiden, a new documentary, is a graphic account of skipper Tracy Edwards and her all female crew’s performance in the Whitbread Round the World Race. In the past women just didn’t compete there or at that level; or, if …
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JAUNT TO BIDDEFORD Earlier this week, we headed south of Portland to visit friends on the outskirts of Biddeford. This is a part of Maine we had not seen before, and we were struck by its quiet beauty. Their house sits above Hills Beach bordered by rock with a view toward Basket Island. There are homes there …
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SUMMER READING The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor This is the kind of historical novel that sweeps you up immediately and keeps you absorbed all the way through. Set in 1838 on the Irish coast and in1938 off Newport, Rhode Island, two young women become attached to, devoted, some might say, to their respective lighthouses. Grace Darling, …
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