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Lessons from Anne
Did you read Anne of Green Gables as a girl? Or did you make her acquaintance viewing the wonderful Sullivan Productions film on PBS in 1985? I’ve read all the “Anne” books which…
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Ooh La La!
I read every book I can find about the elusive Frenchwoman. She’s so serene, so lovely, so scarf adept. Jamie Cat Callan’s latest book, Ooh La La!, French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful…
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Book of Model Beauty
Aren’t these line drawings adorable? They are from “Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty”. My friend Kay introduced me to the book when she brought it to my house and I borrowed it…
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A Garnet Week
I’ve loved garnets since reading the following passage in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady: Niel liked to see the firelight sparkle on her earrings, long pendants of garnets and seed-pearls in the shape…
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Someone at a Distance
I loved this novel by Dorothy Whipple. Someone at a Distance kept me ruminating about the characters between readings, and it’s difficult for me to find literature (except for the classics) that keeps…
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The Way She Looks Tonight
I picked up “The Way She Looks Tonight” while staying in my friend Karen’s guest room in Rochester last month. It looked like a light read that would lull me back to sleep…
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A “Meg” Winter
Imagine my thrill after reading Little Women at age 10, to be told that the March sisters resided a mere 20 miles away in Concord, Massachusetts. But then, Orchard House was not open…
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A Brief Spell of Perfect Weather
I’ve always been friends with books. I credit my mother who often had a book in her hands and would read on the couch in her apron as she waited for dinner to finish…
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Miss Sarton’s Postcard
When I was living near Boston, I found a gentle read at the library filled with references to my favorite city. “The Education of Harriet Hatfield” by May Sarton is a sweet story…
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Paris in Love
I read a short story once about a lonely pioneer wife whose husband went to greet a wagon he heard traveling in the distance of their homestead. The couple had been living alone…
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On the Nightstand
My nightstand is covered with good books because I want choices for my just-before-bed reading. Sometimes that time is a mere few minutes and I want the last things that fill my head…
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Mrs. Delany
I must tell you about a book that has been entrancing me for several months. “The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins her Life Work at Age 72” by Molly Peacock has been on…
