Reading and Roaming
IN HONOR OF VALENTINE’S DAY Reflections on Grandma Walter I realized early this morning that today, February 15th, was my grandmother’s birthday. Meta Marie Henne was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1897. If she were a centennial woman, today would be her 129th birthday; she died at 80 in 1977. In 1922, a few years after graduating from …
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MYSTERY: JIMMY PEREZ IS BACK The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves It’s been seven years since Ann Cleeves published the final Shetland mystery, Wild Fire. She thought she was done with detective Jimmy Perez and ready to move on to other stories. But earlier visits to the Orkney Islands called out to her. It’s gentler than Shetland, and she’s set …
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WHERE IS HOME? YOUTH One year ago this week, the Chief Penguin and I moved to North Carolina. Our last and final home. In our more than 50 years of married life, we have moved nine times and lived in six different states. I was born a Michigander, but only lived in Ann Arbor for one year before …
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READING—SIOUX REVOLT IN THE WEST The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore This spare historical novel focuses on events leading up to the Sioux Uprising of 1862. It is loosely based on a memoir by Sarah Wakefield who with her children was held captive for six weeks by the Sioux Indians. In The Lost Wife, Sarah Butts, later Brinton, leaves an …
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