Reading and Roaming
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES This year, for perhaps the first time ever, we stayed home for Christmas and purchased and put up a live tree. In more recent years, we’ve gone to Manhattan for about ten days to see family. This time, our son and family and our daughter-in-law’s parents all came to Florida. With lively granddaughters ages 6 ½ …
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MORE BESTS As I indicated last week, the newspaper world is full of bests. Even our local paper, Herald Tribune, offered up a selection of the best books of the year. And the New York Times seems to have gone overboard with each of its distinctive sections having its own, “The Best of 2018” edition. On Sunday, “Arts & Leisure” had …
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In my view, summer is a time for excess. Lots of lobster. Indulging in more carbs and sweets, bingeing on television series, and reading beach books as well as serious literature. This past week, the Chief Penguin and I devoted morning and evening hours to The Americans and Crownies while I also included an atmospheric historical …
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POLITICS—BRITISH STYLE If you’re fed up with the American political scene, here are two video offerings for an English change of pace. Margaret (Amazon Prime) This 2-hour production traces the wheeling and dealing and backroom haggling that transpired in November 1990 and resulted in Margaret Thatcher’s ouster as British prime minister. Think lots of older white …
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