Reading and Roaming
WHAT A HORRIBLE WEEK! American life and U.S. politics hit a new low this past week. Aside from the continuing dire news about the pandemic, there was the brutal Minneapolis killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer, followed by nights of violence in that city and mass demonstrations in others around …
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READING A CLASSIC Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Partly out of response to the recent film version, my local book group opted to re-read Little Women. Most everyone in the group had read it at least once. As a girl, I was caught up in the lives of these four sisters and was stunned when Beth died. And Jo …
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VIEWING The English Game (Netflix) This is an excellent series and great “feel good” viewing for these strange times. A whole series (6 parts) about football, (soccer, that is), you say; but I’m not a sports fan. Well, there’s so much more to this historical drama by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey. Opening in 1879, it focuses …
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RECENT READING: SCHIZOPHRENIA Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker I have always been interested in what makes people tick. In college, that motivated me to take both the introductory psychology course and also an advanced course in abnormal psych. This was the late 1960’s when so-called “refrigerator mothers” were responsible for causing …
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