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Tag Archives: Henry James
Vacation Reading, Part 2
Six months ago, I posted about vacation and what books to bring along. Since then, we’ve chosen a destination and leave in three days. I’ve been stacking up books for weeks. A few are the ones I thought of back in March, when we were debating Wyoming over Carmel (we decided on neither). A couple weeks ago, at a local bookstore—Alexander Book Company, one of the few, treasured indie bookstores still in S.F.—I found Diane Keaton’s memoir in paperback. Perfect! Sometime over the summer, I picked up my husband’s bedside reading and found myself immersed in details of the French … Continue reading →
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Tagged A House With No Roof, Alexander Book Company, books, Caroline Paul, Cheryl Strayed, Diane Keaton, Donna Leon, FIghting FIre, French Revolution, Henry James, Huston Smith, Julian Barnes, Lindsey C, Lindsey Crittenden, Margot Livesey, Nadine Gordimer, Portrait of a Lady, reading, Rebecca WIlson, Sense of an Ending, The FLight of Gemma Hardy, The Pickup, Then Again, To the Lighthouse, vacation reading, VIrginia Woolf, Why Religion Matters, Wild
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Mystery Surprise
I’ve never much liked mystery novels. I get either helplessly confused by the third chapter (Smiley’s People) or impatient that no one else figured out early on that of course the wife did it (Presumed Innocent). In fourth and fifth grade, I collected Nancy Drews, mostly to try to understand the intriguing world of teenagers, for which Nancy’s life, with her little blue roadster and her boyfriend named Ned, did little to prepare me. Tattered-jacketed copies of The Key to Rebecca and The Russia House sit on my bookshelf, as do biographies of the Romanovs and Winston Churchill. Books I’ll … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Vine, Crown Publishing Group, Death and Judgement, Donna Leon, Duplicate Keys, Guido Brunetti, Henry James, henry james turn of the screw, Jane Smiley, key to rebecca, keys to the street, Lindsey Crittenden, mysteries, mystery novels, mystery writers, Nancy Drew, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick McGrath, plot, precise characterizations, Presumed Innocent, Ruth Rendell, Smiley's People, Spider, The Crocodile Bird, The Key to Rebecca, The Keys to the Street, the Romanovs, The Russia House, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Turn of the Screw, The Water's Lovely, unreliable narrator, Venice, Winston Churchill
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