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1. What are you currently reading? A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee. I returned to this memoir, which I first read more than 25 years ago, because I'm about to see All the President's Men again, this time at the TCM Classic Film Festival. Bradlee was managing editor of The Washington Post, portrayed in the film by Jason Robards in an Oscar-winning performance, and was, so I thought during Watergate, the sexiest older man on the planet. I realize now that when teenaged me was crushing on that older man, he was younger than I am today, and this amuses me.
He did have a good life, an eventful one. Polio survivor. War hero and journalist. I am curious to see how the reminiscences/opinions of a man born in 1921 will sound to me today.
2. What did you recently finish reading? Agatha Raisin and The Love from Hell by M. C. Beaton. #11 in the series, and I didn't really like it. Everyone in the story annoyed me – save for the minor recurring characters like the vicar's wife, Agatha's housekeeper, and one of the town's policemen. The plot actually takes us to a French monastery, an excursion that felt at best inauthentic. I'm not sorry I read it because it contains plot points I'll need to know if I return for #12. But I was disappointed.
3. What will you read next? I don't know
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