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JANET LEVINE BLOG: NYJB Book Review: More Was Lost

by Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | family, garden, gardening, Memoir, non-fiction, Uncategorized

Reviewed by: Janet Levine “More Was Lost is a memoir of two parts; the first reads like a fairy tale and the second like a nightmare.” More Was Lost is the reissue of a 1946 memoir by Eleanor Perényi, a well known New York figure in literary circles. She was an editor...

Janet Levine Blog: NYJB Book Review: Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

by Admin | Feb 9, 2016 | Biography, Children, family, gardening, Memoir, non-fiction

Reviewed by: Janet Levine “a well-written, family memoir that tackles broad questions of identity . . .” Their Promised Land is somewhat quirky: compelling and heartwarming in parts but also long-winded and unremarkable in others. Ian Buruma, the author, is well known...

Sissinghurst, English garden jewel

by Admin | Aug 17, 2010 | creativity, gardening

In July I treated myself to an adventure I had long day-dreamed of taking: to see some of the great gardens of south-east England. It was a treat, a veritable sensory feast. England, and all of Great Britain of course, is a history and literary theme park. Every town...