Reading and Roaming
To me, June signals the beginning of summer reading season. Last summer I set myself the goal of reading 20 books between June 1 and September 1. This year I don’t think I’ll be quite as ambitious; maybe I’ll read that many books and maybe not, but I am not going to be so focused …
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Via Carota For us, no visit to New York would be complete without at least one meal, and preferably two or three, at Via Carota. This temple of rustic comfort food in the West Village doesn’t take reservations so we find ourselves eating at very unfashionable times. We tried to have dinner here on a recent Saturday …
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Some of us make lists all year long: to-do lists, grocery lists, shopping lists, and the like. I am an inveterate list maker, always have been. As was my mother so I suppose I inherited this tendency as did at least one of my sisters. It’s satisfying to create a list and then check off items as they are …
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READING MEMOIRS As my regular readers know, I am fond of reading memoirs. I am also fascinated by the dynamics within a marriage and intrigued by the nuances and tensions within romantic relationships in general. Here are two new memoirs touching on these and other issues. The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love …
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