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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by historians John Guy and Julia Fox (husband and wife team)is a deeply researched tome larded with the tumultuous history of the reigns of Henry VIII,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee is a well-researched account of France from the reign of Napoleon III through the end of his empire, the Franco-Prussian War he had provoked, the radical socialist…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Sorry, folks, but I just don’t buy the argument that it was fine for Joe Biden to have pardoned son Hunter not just for the tax evasion and gun charges for which he was convicted but for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My stuffing is made. If the weather permits, we’ll be together with family for the Thanksgiving holiday. Friends and acquaintances keep reaching out, asking “what are we going to do?” They’re not referring to how best to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska once defended Richard Nixon’s ultimately failed nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court by stating, “Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Here are two novels in which key characters are named Gabe. The similarity ends there. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is a psychological thriller that plumbs the depth of the human psyche. The simplest narrative – a woman…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a nicely woven mystery set in rural East Texas. Two murders occur in just a matter of days in a tiny town called Lark. Are the two crimes related? That’s just one of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. This time the pollsters were right. They had held all along that the election outcome was within the margin of error. It could go either way. And so it did. But in the wrong direction. Donald J.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Hunter by Tana French is a murder mystery set in the hardworking village of Ardnakelty in Ireland during an abnormally dry, searingly hot summer, oppressive to humans and animals alike. Nerves are on edge. The only relief for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Kamala Harris pledges, “We won’t go back.” Tonight, however, we all will. At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning we set the clocks back an hour. Sure, it means an extra hour of sleep, but, for many of us,…
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