Reading and Roaming
SUMMER READING SIBLINGS IN THE POSTWAR DUTCH COUNTRYSIDE : The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden Published in 2024, The Safekeep was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and selected for many best-book-of-the-year lists. It’s 1961, fifteen years after the end of WWII, and Isabel lives alone in the house she shared with her parents and her two brothers, Louis older, …
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MAINE AND ITS LOBSTERS Maine State Aquarium Red lobsters, blue lobsters, and white lobsters. You can learn about them and even see some specimens at the Maine State Aquarium which is part of the Maine Discovery Center. This facility is in West Boothbay Harbor at McKown Point. We visited this tiny museum, which since our last visit …
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A 4th of July that included a reading of the Declaration and a Cary Town Band patriotic concert.
BOOKS FOR SUMMER For some years now, I’ve been in the habit of drawing up a list of books I hope to read over the summer. Some are long hardbacks or biographies I have put off, others are just fun mysteries or beach reads, and one or two might be titles for my book club. It’s a …
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