Monthly Reading List 2025
LEEUWARDEN AT SUNRISE
- If We Burn – V. Bevins (NF) – REVIEW
- Shielded – J. Schwartz (NF) – REVIEW
- Citizen – C. Rankin (prose poetry) – REVIEW
- Arthur Miller – John Lahr (NF) – REVIEW
- Counting Descent – Clint Smith (poetry) – REVIEW
- The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh – Penguin Classics – REVIEW
- The Dead Hand – D. Hoffman (NF) – REVIEW
- Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (play) – Bertolt Brecht – REVIEW
- Frans Hals – (2023) – National Gallery London (essays) – REVIEW
- Dallas Sweetman (play) – Sebastian Barry – REVIEW
- The Iliad – Homer – REVIEW
- Top 3 longest books I’ve ever read – 26.08.2025
- Il nous restera ça – Virginie Grimaldi #WIT (France) – REVIEW
- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – F. Werfel (Austria) – REVIEW
- Rodolpho Walsh’s Last Case – Elsa Drucaroff #WIT (Argentina) – REVIEW
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NancyElin.blog 
wow, doing well in August. I need to check out Counting Descent, thanks!
Reading and relaxing never felt so good…after a month of travelling!
Well that seems manageable!
I’ve been home for 1,5 week…no big trips and feel rested. Getting up early for trains and a long day of walking, museums etc wears one down after a few weeks! I’ve tickets for this month to visit: the Stedelijk Museum, the Rembrandt House, the Rijks Museum (again…) and Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. I hope I can manage all four!
You can do it!!
Going to a “Ladies ‘teacher’ Lunch” next week. Two of my former students invite the “old timers” to lunch once each summer. We have not done it since Covid but I look forward to it… we always have a ton of laughs and catch up on the local gossip. We all need a few laughs!
Which “old timers” are going with you…Sue Martin?
sue Martin and Sue Karcher
Do you know where you are going to lunch…or is it a surprise?
Colleen Karcher Stockno’s new house. She just recently moved to Northfield, CT from Oxford.
It’s usually a 4+ hour “lunch”!!
Many, many, many years ago Sue Martin and I used to go to Sue Karcher’s for a summer poolside lunch and a little Colleen Ahern (Kevin’s daughter, about 5 yr old) used to to come to the fence and say “Hey Suey are your friends gone yet?” We still laugh about that to this day!! She wanted to go in the pool but her mom said not until the company leaves… ha, ha, ha!!! Colleen has 3 girls of her own now, the oldest one is in 11th grade!!
Question: Weren’t the neighbours (house on garage side)…called the ‘Martins” ? Was Sue a neighbour of yours way back when?