A story of the 60's as seen through the eyes of Robert and Doris Goodwin. The reader is a fly on the wall as they go through boxes of memorabilia gathered by Robert during his years attached to the Washington,DC powers of the 60's. He was more often than I ever knew "in the room where it happened". Two brilliant minds explaining the era that defines my generation. I should have been paying better attention. Also a reminder of how in a kinder, wiser time, two people could disagree and still love one another. An amazing story.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
There are Rivers in the Sky by
I read this book while cruising down the Danube passing historical cities on an ancient waterway. It was a perfect match for that mood. So many passages to stop and ponder. Both poetic and political.
From the ruins of the library of King Ashurbanipal of Ancient Mesopotamia on the Tigris River a copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh is saved.
In 1853, Arthur Smyth lives in the slums along the River Thames. He will crack the cuneiform code to translate the poem.
In 2014, Narin, a young Yazidi girl is trying to avoid ISIS and return to her home in Lalish, Iraq to be baptized in its holy waters.
In 2018, hydrologist Zaleekhah lives on a houseboat on the Thames and bring all their stories together.
All the water that exists in the world now is all the water that has ever existed on Earth. What does the water remember and does it connect us one to the other?
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
I need to start by saying that rarely do I think the ending of a book is what I want it to be. This was perfect. Five college kids - all Chinese-American - some more one than the other - try to steal five bronze statues from five different museums - very Ocean's Eleven. But there is so much more. What is it to be just one generation away as a hyphenated American? Who really owns the art appropriated in the colonial era. What would you do for the promise of $10 million. But really - the ending - genius!
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