Reading and Roaming
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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ON SCREEN Time and Mortality On Golden Pond (Amazon Prime $) Jennifer Finney Boylan is an occasional opinion writer for the New York Times and an English professor at Bard. Years ago, I read her groundbreaking memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, about her transition from male to female. I find her columns thoughtful and insightful. In …
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We have made a concerted effort to see as many of the Oscar nominees as possible and continued this week with three more films. All were noteworthy in some way, although I can see why Nomadland is favored by a number of critics for best picture. I agree with them. Time (Amazon Prime $) Time is nominated for best documentary …
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Happy Egg Day! Happy Easter! Couldn’t resist including this basket of dyed eggs as the header photo, courtesy of pennlive.com OSCAR NOMINEES, A WANNABE, AND A CLASSIC LOVE UNDER STRESS Supernova (Amazon Prime $) I feel like I’ve been living with Stanley Tucci the past two weeks, what with watching his entire Searching for Italy series and now …
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