"Jam from young pine cones will quickly restore strength, support immunity, replenish your body with valuable vitamins and micro-elements.”
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third dog
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I’ve recently been expanding my Marjorie Hillis collection – having mistakenly believed for years that she’d only written Live Alone and Like It and…
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Previously in reverse plots coverage: City Slickers is a reverse Cain and Abel and The Talented Mr. Ripley is a reverse A Room With a View. Algernon…
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Perhaps you are already familiar with the documentary series Chef’s Table? I’ve caught the errant episode here and there without ever feeling especially…
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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein describe in The Final Days Richard Nixon’s reaction to his loss of power: “Between sobs, Nixon was plaintive...How had a…
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Another successful find from my recent trip to Freebird Books has been an early edition of Lewis E. Lawes’ 1932 memoir, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. I…
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February 2023

This weekend I unexpectedly stumbled onto Freebird Books on a walk along the Red Hook waterfront. Inside I came across a copy of Valentine’s City of New…
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May Queen: Always capers at the front of the parade by herself Almost no bounty to share, unless you count wreaths and flower crowns Hope you like…
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Most of the books I’ve read in the last year or so have been entirely new to me. I’d guess roughly 90% were the result of an offhand comment from…
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“I want to be right all of the time; in my natural condition and given the option, I would choose the warm satisfaction of self-righteousness over…
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Original (“The great frost. cold doings in London, except it be at the lotterie. With newes out of the country. A familiar talk betwene a country-man…
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