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Book Nook

Hi there friends, About a year ago I posted about the books that were my favorite as a child. While I continue to love Strega Nona and Mooncake and all of the books I listed, I wanted to follow up … Continue reading →

Posted in books | Tagged books, Fancy Nancy, Giraffes Can't Dance, Kids, reading, The Paper Bag Princess | 14 Comments

The Rules of Readability

I stayed in bed until a leisurely noon or afterwards today, finishing up this book: source Briefly, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is about (more generally) the highs and lows of society in Manhattan in the last 1930s and (more subtly) … Continue reading →

Posted in books, writing | Tagged Amor Towles, books, Katey Kontent, library, reading, Rules of Civility | 24 Comments

Heming and Hawing

Happy Friday- kicking off a long weekend! Here’s tonight’s sunset (something I see quite often): …and here’s something I see much less often: the sunrise. I show you these photos because A) they are pretty, and B) because tonight I want … Continue reading →

Posted in books, photography, sunsets, travel | Tagged A Moveable Feast, books, Expat literature, Flaubert, Hemingway, Kafka, Madrid, reading, Siddhartha, sunrise, sunset, The Sun Also Rises, Toni Morrison, venice, writing | 25 Comments

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