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Elizabeth Bowen
“In these surrounding little streets, lit up like aquariums and tonight anonymous, saunterers passed me in vague shoals”. – from A Time In Rome “The cautious steps of women when something has happened came downstairs, sending vibrations up the spine of the house.” – from The House in Paris “It came to be rumoured that everybody…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/9
Hello! How has your week been? I can’t believe that it’s already the second Sunday of March, though I’m sure that most of you are joyful that we’re swiftly moving toward warmer weather. This week has been a heck of a good one for reading for me. I finished Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, Rainbow…
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The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker by Janet Groth
The Receptionist is a book that I’ve wanted to read since it was released a few years ago. Anything set in Manhattan in the sixties always appeals to me and to have it set in the literary world is especially enticing. I was gathering books for a Mad Men display at work and this title…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/2
Hello there! I hope you’ve all had a great week. Mine was another busy one and I didn’t get as much reading in as I had hoped. I am stalled with Frog Music, but I will pick it up again soon – it will probably be my lunch break book next week at work. My…
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Cover Collection: Northanger Abbey
1. Penguin Clothbound Classics // 2. Vintage Classics // 3. Everyman’s Library // 4. Vintage Classics // 5. Signet Classics // 6. Headline Review Sunday’s and Nicola’s recentish posts on Northanger Abbey triggered memories of the only time I have read this lovely novel. I was just out of graduate school, living with my parents…
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Sunday Bulletin 2/23
I’ve had a very productive week, have been busy every evening so there’s not been much time to read. I did finish The Chosen early in the week, but haven’t really clicked with anything else, though I started Frog Music by Emma Donoghue at lunch yesterday and I think it is going to be a…
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Presidents’ Day Hike
One of the perks of working in a government job is that we get every Federal holiday off from work. Yesterday was Presidents’ Day, the second such holiday of the year. My dad, brother and I all agreed that it would be a fine day for a hike. We met up fairly early to head…
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Sunday Bulletin 2/16
Hello all! How has your week been? Mine was one of those weird weeks where it seems the planets are really out of alignment, especially at the library. We were all running for the door at closing on Friday because we just couldn’t wait to escape the madness. Many of us had a lot of…
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What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Just in time for Valentine’s Day – these books both deal with women in their forties and fifties seemingly falling in love with horribly unsuitable (younger) men. The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber When forty-something librarian Patricia Dolan meets a distant Irish cousin, Mickey, she immediately falls in love with his youth, confidence and beauty.…
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February Bake: Banana-Chocolate Bread
On Sunday afternoon I got a hankering to stir up some flour, eggs, sugar, butter and other good stuff and bake a little treat. For inspiration I turned to my Pinterest Nectarous Nibbles board and picked a recipe that I had recently pinned from Martha Stewart Living, Banana-Chocolate Bread. I am a huge fan of…
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