For real escape through summer reading,  there's no substitute for fiction.  Here are a few books worth sharing. My top read this past year was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.  A 13-year-old boy in Manhattan survives a terrorist bomb in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  His mother is killed.  They had been visiting her favorite painting, a goldfinch …

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