Materfamilias Writes

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — Playing Catch-Up Here with a Grab-Bag of Books for you

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — Playing Catch-Up Here with a Grab-Bag of Books for you

I’ve been reading, yes, but I’ve also been packing and trying to get the house organized to leave it for almost two months and visiting the kids before we leave and meeting with the housesitter…

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H is for Hello Again. . . and also for Helen Macdonald’s Hawk book. . .

H is for Hello Again. . . and also for Helen Macdonald’s Hawk book. . .

Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…

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Leaning In with Sheryl Sandberg

Leaning In with Sheryl Sandberg

I haven’t been here for a while, have I? But ay-yi-yi! I postedover here about my response to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and that is getting a reaction. If you don’t read my other blog, but…

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Ross King’s Defiant Spirits (about the Group of Seven)

Ross King’s Defiant Spirits (about the Group of Seven)

If you’ve read Ross King’s wonderful The Judgement of Paris (about the Impressionist painters), you’ll know how compellingly he puts together research to tell the story of a period of art history. In Defiant Spirits: The…

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Three to Catch Up

Three to Catch Up

This is not getting easier, this keeping up with recording some thoughts about my reading. I seem to get further and further behind. For example, although I finished it over a month ago, I haven’t…

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