Tag: Cathleen Schine
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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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Happy, Happy New Year
Best wishes for the new year! I was going to write a post yesterday on my best books of 2013, but the company who hosts my blog had a server outage and I couldn’t access my blog for the majority of the day and then…I became obsessed with a knitting project. So, in lieu of…
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Fin & Lady by Cathleen Schine
“Fin’s funeral suit was a year old, worn three times, already too small”. I knew I wanted to read this book when I saw that it takes place in the mid-sixties, one of my favorite time periods. I love the music, the fashion, the films and the changing social and cultural norms. Fin & Lady…
A Certain Fondness 