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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lost and Found: Coming of Age in the Washington Press Corps by Ellen Hume captures the idealism of a young reporter, from her early days as a cub in California, moving to the L.A. Times and its Washington Bureau, and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Known World by Edward P. Jones , published in 2003, is a richly woven saga set in antebellum South between 1840 and 1860. The central focus is the Townsend family headed by Augustus and Mildred, who are freed former…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “All politics is loco,” Senator Ed Markey told a gathering of the New England Council on Monday, paraphrasing a favorite saying of House Speaker Tip O’Neill of Cambridge. Just part of the craziness this week is the President’s…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman of No Importance, is another display of the author’s mastery of biography. In this scrupulously researched and documented chronicle, her subject is Pamela Churchill Harriman, a too-often-dismissed woman of consequence. A woman of power…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sitting at Fenway Park last week got me to thinking about the mystique of what used to be American’s #1 pastime. The beloved image is of a warm summer night, a gentle breeze blowing the American flag in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, was much anticipated, heavily promoted and widely reviewed. It ended up as a three-day story. More than one person has…
Read More »The entry below ia being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The War Diaries of Simon Robert Gordon by Constance Gordon Kean is a daughter’s loving tribute to her father’s and mother’s 1940’s romance against the backdrop of a world war. Her father, a sergeant stationed for three years in the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. To the Midnight Sun: A Story of Exile and Return by Stephen Saletan is another search for one’s own identity by researching a close relative, in this case, Saletan’s Russian-born grandmother, Eda Grigorievna Bamuner. As a child in suburban New…
Read More »The enrty below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Time of the Child by Niall Williams returns us to the setting for his last novel, This is Happiness. We’re deposited back in the rural Irish village of Faha, where the men work hard and douse end-of-workday frustrations at the local…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of The Odyssey was a very different read for me. I had read a couple of versions of The Odyssey in my younger life. But her fresh translation of Homer came highly recommended, and I decided to give it…
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