Reading and Roaming
MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 I’ve averaged reading about a book a week this year, mostly novels and a small selection of memoirs and other nonfiction. Here are my favorites in no particular order. What were your favorite reads this year? I’d love to hear from you! FICTION Most Inventive Novel: The Underground Railroad by Colson …
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RE-ENTRY I’ve been back home just a week. My head is still lingering over some distant ocean, and the time in New Zealand becoming a memory. The four weeks seemed longer, and now I’m trying to process all that we saw and did. Probably two things stand out from everything else: 1) it’s an incredibly …
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READING ROUND-UP. What follows are the mini reviews of all the books I’ve written about in the past three months. A friend suggested I aggregate them so here they are. Everything from Madoff to an advice columnist to a neglected author in nonfiction to several mysteries plus a host of novels from the most literary …
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FEELING GRATEFUL The Chief Penguin and I were extremely fortunate, lucky, actually. We endured an anxious 48 hours in New York as Hurricane Irma moved closer and closer to our coast and to the possibility of obliterating our stretch of paradise. But as Irma shifted eastward and the winds changed direction, we were the beneficiaries …
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