Reading and Roaming
READING FASCINATING WOMAN Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg History has not been kind to James Polk, the unpopular president known for his Manifest Destiny policy and the U.S.-Mexican War of the 1840’s. He only served one term in office and his widow outlived him by more than 40 years. Sarah Polk, …
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SUMMER READING Here is a list of the titles I read this summer. Of these twenty-two titles, seven were on my intended summer reading list. I started and abandoned American Spy and The Power of the Dog, read one story in Lauren Groff’s Florida, and am more than a quarter of the way into Middlemarch. It’s a long book and I’m taking it …
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ON THE BIG SCREEN—WOMAN POWER It’s hard to accept how sexist the sailing world was in 1990. The Maiden, a new documentary, is a graphic account of skipper Tracy Edwards and her all female crew’s performance in the Whitbread Round the World Race. In the past women just didn’t compete there or at that level; or, if …
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SUMMER READING How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry If you are a reader and a booklover, then this novel set in a small town in Cornwall should delight you. When her father Julius, bookshop owner extraordinaire, dies, his daughter Emilia inherits Nightingale Books. Emilia has lived in Hong Kong for some years and …
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