Still more summer fiction

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl is a confection, set in the 1980’s in Paris.  Stella, a 20-something copy editor in New York, leads a highly routinized life, the regularity of which is comforting to her.  She is estranged from her mother, Celia, who has never expressed love of her. Nor has Celia ever told …

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Books to consider, pt. 1 – non-fiction

The hammering from daily political news has kept me away from devouring my normal quota of books on contemporary politics.  If you too are on overload, here are some non-fiction alternatives I've recently enjoyed. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey  by Candace Millard, published in 2006, was loaned to me by thoughtful neighbors …

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