Reading and Roaming
SUMMER READING ROUND-UP Following the lead of another blogger (The Book Stop), who got it from another blog, I set myself the personal challenge of reading 20 books between June 1 and Sept. 1. In my June 3rd blog post, I listed ten of the twenty books I intended to read. How did I do? …
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VISITING OLD HAUNTS This week we are returning to the scene of past crimes—no, not crimes—just past lives. Coming to Bethlehem for an event at Lehigh University let us re-explore Bethlehem’s Main Street and its burgeoning dining scene. New restaurants midst old familiar ones (such as Edge, still excellent) and lots of sidewalk seating. On …
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It’s almost Labor Day and the unofficial end of summer. If you are off for holiday over the weekend or just home with some free hours, here are a couple of lighter books plus an engaging biography of a neglected writer who deserves more attention. What have you been reading this summer? I’d love to …
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SUMMER READING Like the proverbial “eyes bigger than her stomach,” I always have ambitious plans for how many and which books I will read over the summer. Several stacks of them in fact. They are a mix of novels, mysteries, biography, and general nonfiction. And I have aspirations of re-reading some classics like Austen’s Persuasion …
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