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Author: Teri Rife
I’ve checked my most-recent Reading History at the library and I see a group of fiction and nonfiction books I haven’t discussed here, as well as a number of plays from LA Theatreworks I listened to over the summer in my car. The plays are 2 CD’s each, so great for the car in these
Which Summer Reading Bingo square does this book fit? I’ve lost track of my Bingo card but, no matter, this book is an exquisitely painful examination of life and death in a Mumbai airport slum that has been one of the best uses of my reading time (or my time, in general) since Apeirogon. It
Thanks to “Graphic Novel or Comic” category on the Reading Bingo card, I was reminded that I have long wanted to read this book, which had not learned of until it was put on the stage. Actually, this book ticks off three boxes: Graphic Novel/Comic, Coming of Age, and QTBIPOC. How’s that for efficiency? I
The order of books I read is often a product of availability at the library. I reserve items that sometimes take a long time to come. Every once in awhile, a theme happens to emerge. The three books I’ve read most recently are: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson,
The audiobook was read by the marvelous Cathleen McCarron, who is an actress and voice & text coach with some 40 audiobooks to her credit. The story is set in Scotland and McCarron is a wizard with the characters’ accents and patterns of speech. This is a debut novel for Honeyman. I hope, hope, hope
L.A. Theatre Works produced lots of audio book full-cast productions of plays, including this one. I only discovered these in the library system’s catalog because I had watched online a delightful interview of Lynn Nottage and went looking for a book of her plays. The library has such a book but I also found the
I want to share my pleasure when looking at these stitched pieces. https://conduitgallery.com/viewing-rooms/lap-work-pandemic-stitching
I have been listening to some of the half-hour “Doc Chat” weekly episodes of the New York Public Library’s Center for Research in the Humanities. One of them was about the library’s Picture Collection (1.5 million images strong) and the way in which it is organized. Librarians have made and make decisions about which of
Thanks to Barbara, I became too interested in watching the eagle cam last year about this time. Now we have come full circle with the first egg of this season on its way to hatching. The eagle pair I watched last year slipped off the the edge of their territory and built a new nest
Seasonal Reading 