Reading and Roaming
When we first get settled into our Maine digs, our pattern is to hunker down for the first few days. We go almost nowhere and we spend hours on end just reading! I have time to read at home, but somehow, this is a change of pace without a fixed routine and so it’s vacation. Here …
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SUMMER READING I generally ignore the Parade magazine that comes with our local Sunday paper. Last week, though, the “Summer Reading Issue” note in the top corner piqued my curiosity. Parade asked Ann Patchett to come up with a list of the 75 best books of the past 75 years in celebration of the magazine’s …
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READING And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer. Belfer is one of my favorite novelists. I had been thinking about her and wondering if she had published anything recently when I happened upon her new novel at Three Lives in New York. This historical novel deals with music, specifically a possible missing cantata by Johann …
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By popular request and for your reference (as well as my own), I’ve created an alphabetical list of all of the books I’ve mentioned or commented on since the beginning of the year; i.e. January through May, with one title that will appear in another posting this month. List includes the genre and the date of …
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