Simplest Outfit Ever and a Month’s Worth of Good Books

This is the first Reading Post in many years that I’ve published for the first (and only) time right on my main (now my only) blog. Past experience has shown me that many of you…

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Back-Alley Walks with Art and Book News

One of my blog intentions for 2021 was to duplicate here my Books Read This Month post from Materfamilias Reads,  I had intended to try this doubled-posting approach until the end of the year and…

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A Few Good Books I Read Last Month . . .

Another good reading month, was April.  It seems that no amount of busy-ness (Italian classes, fitness workouts, family life, knitting and sketching and bread-making, FaceTime connections with friends, kayaking and cycling and tramping through forests…

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Spring! Dress, Garden, Snailmail — and a Few Good Books!

 If you’re not spending all your time in the garden these Spring days (or raking up leaves and chopping firewood, if you’re in the other hemisphere), today’s post comprises my report on the books I…

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March-ing through my Reading Journal: A Month’s Worth of Books

March Reading: 17. Siberian Haiku  Jurge Vile; Illustrator, Lina Itagaki; Translator, Jura Avizienis. Graphic novel; Autofiction; historical fiction; YA/children’s literature; 18. The Alice Network, Kate Quinn. Historical fiction; Spy novel; romance; strong female protagonist; WWII 19.…

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