Monthly Archives: February 2012

February 25, 2012

Dear Elizabeth George,

his Body of Death This Body of Death is just one of your many absorbing mysteries, but it’s the one I happened to be reading this past December when Colton Harris-Moore, the “barefoot bandit,” was first sentenced. Because you and … Continue reading →

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February 9, 2012

Dear Zadie Smith,

I read White Teeth first at a lovely lakeside resort in Maine where my husband and I used to vacation for a week every summer. There we retreated from the many stresses of our workaday urban lives. There one afternoon … Continue reading →

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