Tag: Baltimore
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Book Review: The Windsor Affair by Melanie Benjamin
There’s almost constant chatter about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but long before there was a Harry and Meghan, there was a David and Wallis. While the severity of what happened during what will forever be known as the Abdication Crisis does not compare to the “spare” and his wife stepping back from royal…
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Book Review: Three Days of June by Anne Tyler
Last February, I remember reading NYT’s book critic Dwight Garner’s review of Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Knopf, February 2025). I added it to my TBR in Goodreads as I was reading the review, and I finally got around to reading it on my Kindle two days ago. Garner said in his review,…
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Book Review – Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French
First, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this work of nonfiction, a history of sorts of Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and the time she spent in China in the mid-1920s. I have long been drawn to nonfiction works about the Royal Family of Great Britain and…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 