ON STAGE
The 2022-23 concert and stage season ended on Sunday, or at least it did for us. The ticket drawer is empty for now, waiting to be filled with 2023-2024 delights and surprises. Trinity Rep is ending it's season with Stephen Sondheim's Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and we saw it Sunday afternoon. We saw it on Broadway 40 years ago with Angela Lansbury and Lou Cariou and really loved it.
We have waited three years to see this production. Trinity Rep was supposed to end its 2019-2020 season with Sweeney Todd -- but it got postponed. They were finally able to get it back on the schedule for this year. It was a long but enjoyable production -- although it is a bit macabre -- and you all know that macabre is not normally my thing. But, we really enjoy Sondheim's work and are happy to sit through most everything he has produced. The Trinity Rep interpretation was refreshing and the troupe was superb. I can't wait to see them them do La Cage aux Folles next year. :-)
100 DAYS OF SUMMER TALLY
94. Book that you checked out or borrowed.
The Art of English Murder by Lucy Worsley
Pts: 5 RT: 5
2. Book set in a location that you would like to go on vacation.
A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
Pts: 6 RT: 11
18. Book that involves a road trip or other travel.
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
Pts: 1 RT: 12
8. Book written by an author whose first and last initials can be found in the words SUMMER VACATION.
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
Pts: 7 RT: 19
RT=Running Total
THE BOOKS
Reading has been a bit tough for the last few weeks. There really has been no time to just sit and read much less keep up with writing comments about each one. Still here is what I have gotten through since last I posted. In no particular order.
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
At last! I have been wanting to read this one for a long time but had trouble finding it on audio. Audible recently published a Tey containing all 6 of the Alan Grant series plus Miss Pym and Brat Farrar. I spent the credit solely to get my hands on Miss Pym. While the setting, an English girls' boarding school, was interesting in a Gaudy Night sort of way, I was not enamored of Miss Pym taking justice into her own hands.
3.5 stars
The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley
A romp through British murder both fiction and non-. Just the right length -- long enough to cover the subject, short enough to keep your attention. Looking forward to what she has to say about Aggie.
3.5 stars
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
I read it but I can't remember anything about it.
3 stars for my lack of memory
A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
OMG! I cannot wait to read the rest of the series! Set in Australia in the early 30s, between the World Wars. I don't know how much of the background to this historical novel is true but it was certainly food for thought, especially in light of what is going on in US politics today. Highly recommended.
4 and a quarter stars
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! This is one of my favorites by the author. I picked it up because I wanted something familiar to read that I did not have to rewind each night because I knew the story well enough to know what I had missed while I was sound asleep. A tale of 4 WWII veterans, a tale ahead of its time, The Chequer Board is four stories woven into one. 4.75 stars
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
I am going to have to re-read this one later in the month. I can't remember a thing about it and I just finished it.
A final thought
There's no place like home
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