Reading and Roaming
It’s almost Labor Day and the unofficial end of summer. If you are off for holiday over the weekend or just home with some free hours, here are a couple of lighter books plus an engaging biography of a neglected writer who deserves more attention. What have you been reading this summer? I’d love to …
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MAINE DAYS Although the Chief Penguin and I are retired, the rhythm of our days is different when we’re here. It’s like being on vacation as we take a more leisurely approach to life (if that’s possible, but it is—no medical or other appointments!) Earlier this week, on the most perfect day thus far, we …
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ON THE MAINE COAST After the humidity and heat of Florida, the Maine coast is a welcome change—even when you have several days of gray skies, continual fog, and temperatures that don’t climb out of the 60’s. We’re on an island here and that means it’s more susceptible to foggy, misty conditions. Sometimes just going …
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SUMMER READING Like the proverbial “eyes bigger than her stomach,” I always have ambitious plans for how many and which books I will read over the summer. Several stacks of them in fact. They are a mix of novels, mysteries, biography, and general nonfiction. And I have aspirations of re-reading some classics like Austen’s Persuasion …
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