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It’s Monday! What are you reading?
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Nice France
We just got back from a week’s vacation based in Nice, France. We also made trips to Vence in Provence, Monaco, and Ventimiglia, Italy. I’ll be posting about our French…
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Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fiction Angel Tungaraza is from Tanzania, but she is living in Kigali Rwanda while her husband is…
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée in Monaco
We’re back from our trip to the south of France. I’ll be posting France stories on Mondays for the Dreaming of France linkup but we spent some time in two…
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Enchantress by Maggie Anton
Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter by Maggie Anton My rating: 3 of 5 stars Historical fiction/historical fantasy Hisdadukh is the daughter of an important Rabbi in fourth-century Babylonia….
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How to Afford Travel
This is the post I meant to write before I got distracted by discussions of privilege. So many people think that foreign travel is a hugely expensive endeavor that they…
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What a Privilege
I’m writing this in a wine bar in an airport waiting to head to France. In the last few days as people have realized we are going I heard a…
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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler My rating: 4 of 5 stars Science Fiction After a nuclear war and the nuclear winter that followed, the remaining humans on planet Earth were…
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The Heist by Daniel Silva
The Heist by Daniel Silva Thriller Gabriel Allon has one year of peace and quiet before he is slated to take over Israel’s intelligence service. He plans to spend it…