Reading and Roaming
We’re home. I’ve spent the week sorting mail, stocking the larder, poring over all the cooking magazines and New Yorkers that accumulated, getting back on the treadmill (need to undue the effects of lobster and potato chips!) and soaking in the pool. Florida is hot and humid, but I’m reveling in being in our own space! …
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AT THE MOVIES “Madcap,” ” hilarious” and “fun” are all terms I’d use to describe just released espionage comedy, Spy. The women are at the top of their game—mostly—and there is plenty of foreign intrigue and too many bodies getting shot to count. The wonderful cast is led by Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a basement …
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FILM I recommend Far from the Madding Crowd! Beautiful countryside, beautifully filmed, and Carey Mulligan is a lovely Bathsheba, intelligent, definite and almost elfin. And the men—Francis Troy has the required rakish dark hair and eyes, Boldwood (don’t you love Hardy’s choice of names!) is older, but not as sinister seeming as in the novel, …
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We’re discovering a wealth of culture here in Southwest Florida! The Sarasota-Bradenton area has a seemingly infinite array of music and theater opportunities. In just the past two months we’ve taken advantage of several. One Sunday November afternoon, we attended a string quartet chamber concert featuring members of the Sarasota Symphony. It turns out that this symphony, previously …
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