Reading and Roaming
With Labor Day upon us, it’s time to review and recap the books I’ve read this summer. Some from my June summer reading list for sure, but many others discovered along the way. Here’s a list of titles followed by notes on three recent reads, each one featuring strong women who served their countries during wartime. MYSTERIES …
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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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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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FILMS AND BOOKS. From a daring adventurer (Gertrude Bell) and a fictional newly minted doctor, Ally Moberley, to a grief stricken father and son and devastated parents to murder and Belgian emigres, I’ve covered a lot of ground in my recent filmgoing and reading. Much of it has been in international settings too: Persia and …
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