Reading and Roaming
I love books. It’s that simple and consequently, most of my recent Christmas gifts and other purchases were books. Here’s a line-up of books recently acquired that I’ve added to my ever growing and seldom diminishing book stack. Two of them I have already read. Here, I’ve listed just the fiction titles along with my favorite titles of 2019. A …
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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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CONCERT NOTE Kudos to the Ladies Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a talented and precocious composer and pianist. But, she was female, and as sister to her talented brother Felix, she was relegated to the back of the room. Their father declared that Felix would have the musical career and she would not. In her day, some of her …
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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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