Reading and Roaming
COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS ET AL Fun with Our Granddaughters Our granddaughters and their parents were with us this past week. No visit would be complete without continuing tradition with some annual outings. Everything from mini golf to the botanical gardens to purchases at Sherman’s Books to one more visit to Railway Village. Of course, we …
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WATCHING My Brilliant Career (Netflix) My Brilliant Career is a 6-part series based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Australian writer, Miles Franklin. Sybylla leaves her dirt-poor family and goes to stay with her grandmother, ostensibly to find a husband, but in her mind to experience more of the world and to become a writer …
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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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