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Mary Ronan Drew
Spokane, WA, USA
I can read and knit simultaneously
Interests: knitting, gardening, wagner, reading, walking
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American Awakening
Posted Jan 5, 2021 at MarysLibrary
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Not a Creature War Stirring
Posted Jan 4, 2021 at MarysLibrary
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Godless
Posted Jan 2, 2021 at MarysLibrary
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Start the New Year Right
The first book I've finished reading in 2021 is one of the best contemporary mysteries I've read in this millennium. It's Snow by John Banville, the winner of the Booker Prize for his 2005 novel, The Sea. This book begins... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2021 at MarysLibrary
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Anecdotal Evidence Blog
In browsing some of my favorite blogs this morning I came across this poem written by Robert Hillyer (1895-1961) and published in the June 28, 1947 issue of The Saturday Review “O that our living literature could be Our sustenance,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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A N Wilson's Dickens
Posted Nov 13, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Lagniappe
Posted Aug 4, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Almost Done
Posted Jul 29, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Contagion
Posted Jul 11, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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American Names
I've long loved this poem by Stephen Vincent Benet, American Names. I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Conservatism
I'm reading Andrew J Bacevich's American Conservatism a surprising book. It is a collection of essays about conservatism in America and it is enlightening. It helps me make sense of the positions some politicians and historians have taken. And it... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Mitz of Bloomsbury
Posted Jun 10, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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I Discover Enid Blyton
Recently one of my bookish on-line British friends mentioned, and not for the first time, her love when young of Enid Blyton books. This time I decided to find out what the fuss was all about and so I bought... Continue reading
Posted May 26, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Quarantine Reading
Posted May 21, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Sharpening her oyster knife
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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The Mirror and the Light
Posted Mar 11, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Will in the World
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Be My Valentine
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. I prize thy love more than whole... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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The 2020 Newbery and Caldecott Awards
Posted Jan 27, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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It's Mary's Library's 14th anniversary
Mary's Library is 14 years old. Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Slow Horses is splendid. Lined up behind it are The Crown Agent and The Secret Life of Books. Thank you for the recommendations.
Mick Herron
Mr. C. writes: If you leave the Aldersgate Street entrance of London's Barbican Tube Station, as I do a few times a year on my way to a meeting in the City, you probably will not have remarked, because they are so unremarkable, a group of rather scruffy Victorian buildings about fi...
The Poppy Wife
Posted Jan 11, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: May her memory be a blessing to the country she loved
[Gertrude] Himmelfarb defended middle-class Victorian moralists against the charge of hypocrisy. While acknowledging that human beings always fall short of their ideals, she noted that reformers declined to patronize the poor by applying standards to them that they would not... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2020 at MarysLibrary
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Merry Christmas!
Posted Dec 25, 2019 at MarysLibrary
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Pass the sweet sherry . . .
A Sustainable Christmas - another rant
You will probably remember my recent rant about magazines and how their banging on about empowering women etc irritated me beyond measure. If you do not and wish to read it, then the link is here. I had a huge response both on and off blog about this posting. I have more or less given up on maga...
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