Author: Frances Boyd
Conservancy Book Review
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson Can humans overcome their hard-wired propensity for short-term planning and self-regard to take on a daring solution to save the world’s plant and animal species from the brink of extinction? In Half-Earth author Edwin O. Wilson, posits that humanity should commit to reserve one-half of the planet’s surface to nature to benefit the majority of
Announcing a new category
From the beginning, I have described my blog as a ‘work in progress’ so I’m pleased to announce a ‘progression’, which will involve a new category and a collaborative effort with the Kiawah Conservancy. The idea for this collaboration evolved after I wrote a book review for the latest issue of “Naturally Kiawah”, the Conservancy’s twice yearly publication. Perhaps, I thought, I could feature on
The Reading Woman
The picture below is a pastel by Louis Comfort Tiffany. It is of his wife Louise. It currently hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Does it remind you of yourself when you fall asleep while reading? This next photo is of a watercolor by Carl Olaf Larsson. It hangs in the Louvre, Paris. Now that I have a kitten in addition to
More New Titles are in at Indigo
Don’t buy all the Lions of Fifth Avenue. I’m getting the book VERY soon. There better be some left!! NEW RELEASES 8/4/2020 August 4th was a big release day with 20+ new titles going onto the shelves at Indigo Books. Here are a few of them. One Minute Out by Mark Greaney. Greaney’s protagonist, The Gray Man, is a former military special-ops guy now CIA.
August Contest
Last month’s winner was Madeleine Kaye, who answered the trivia question almost as soon as I posted it. I learned a lesson from that!! This contest is a bit more involved AND I will take answers for an entire day, up until midnight of August 2. Then, I will take the names of all the people who answered correctly, put them in the proverbial hat,
The Bookshelf Detective
No, ‘The Bookshelf Detective’ is not the title of a new book. It is a person the New York Times has designated to examine the bookshelves of people while they are being interviewed remotely from home–sometimes on talk shows or news hours or the like. I can only suppose that these ‘detectives’ take still shots and enlarge them enough to see the titles of books
Josie’s Book Club
Ronald H. Balson, The Girl from Berlin Fiction Sarah Blake, The Guest Book Fiction Ariel Burger, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s ClassroomNon-fiction Jung Chang, ,Big Sister Little Sister Red SisterNon-fiction Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneNon-fiction Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient Fiction Michael Ondaatje, Warlight Fiction Ann Patchett, The Dutch House Fiction Naomi Regan, Sotah Fiction
Another Library Society offering
A Summer with Southern Authors: John Lane & Phil Wilkinson July 23 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Free To make a reservation, visit the Library Society’s website. The Charleston Library Society happily announces the launch of a community partnership with Evening Post Books & Buxton Books. Beginning this summer, we will offer substantive, informative and entertaining “virtual” programs until the Library Society can resume onsite gatherings.
Where Were You?
Remember July 21, 2020? That is today. The date of July 21 almost slipped by me without my noticing its importance. Remember July 21, 1969? Where were you? I distinctly remember that morning, sitting in my living room in our apartment in Atlanta, GA, on a pulled out sofa bed (we had company at the time who had slept on the sofa bed) watching an