Reading and Roaming
RECENT READING FAMILY TIES, SISTERS, & CHINA Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh American writer Jennifer Haigh’s novels often have a social issue at their heart. They run the gamut from a rare disease in The Condition, to fracking in Heat and Light, to an abortion clinic in Mercy Street, to name just a few of them. Her latest novel, Rabbit Moon, might be said to …
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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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Since I’m traveling, my reading gets a bit neglected, but here are two recent book recommendations I’m happy to share. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead. Shipstead is the author of Seating Arrangements and this is her second novel. It takes the reader into the somewhat cloistered world of ballet. The main character is Joan, …
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We just ended a week of house guests as we wind down our Maine time. My sister and her husband were easy to have and together we visited the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, ate lobster as often as possible, and enjoyed another excursion to Pemaquid Point. We then welcomed our 3 year old …
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