What Chicago Boyz Readers Are Reading (February 2016)

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1. Lone Star Sons – by our very own Sgt Mom. It is very good and I will pass it along to my sons (15 & 12) when I have finished it. I also just finished The Chronicles of Luna City which I liked very much. When will we see the second installment?

2. Hi, Jeff – I am writing it even now – we’re looking to release it in May, in time for some market events over the summer.
   And bits are posted at the website lunacitytexas.com

3. We are traveling a bit this spring. In April we are going to New York, where our daughter lives. The three of us will be seeing the the Royal Shakespeare Company perform four plays under the rubric of “King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings”. They are: Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V, I have purchased the Folger Shakespeare Library editions of the plays.

   In May we are going to Normandy, where we intend to see the D-Day beaches, Bayeux, Mont Saint Michel, Monet’s Garden at Giverny, Honfleur, and St. Malo.
   In preparation for that I have purchase 4 books by John Keegan: “Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 – Aug. 5, 1944; The Second World War; The Battle For History: Re-fighting World War II; The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. Note the connection between the last book and the last listed play.

4. Great! I’m looking forward to reading it.

5. “In May we are going to Normandy, where we intend to see the D-Day beaches, Bayeux, Mont Saint Michel, Monet’s Garden at Giverny, Honfleur, and St. Malo.”

   I have been to all those places and have a couple of points of advice. We stayed in a B&B in Normandy that was central. The beaches were fun and I had three teenaged girls. San Mere Eglise has a great museum that is better every time I go there. As Airborne vets die, they are leaving their memorabilia to the museum. It is great.

   Bayeaux is great. Watch for when the museum is open. Mont San Michel, if you are interested, has several small hotels but you must book way in advance. They are fun because you can stay on the island after all the tourists have left. You must move your car, however to keep it from being swept away. There is a locked parking lot for employees and hotel guests.

   Giverny is well worth the visit and is a village with an art colony. It’s an all day visit. Still within driving distance of Paris.

   A nice side trip is to Pegasus Bridge, which is really a British site but it has a great museum, too.

   The movie, “The Longest Day” is a nice introduction to the whole area. It is very accurate.

   We had a book on the invasion by a British author aimed at visitors but I can’t remember the title. It is a guidebook in great detail.

   Some of my photos. More photos.

   This page has photos of Giverny and Mont San MIchel. I can recommend that restaurant. It is the same as the fictional one in Helen MacInnes novel, “Assignment in Brittany.” It has been there for many years.

   The photo of Mont San Michel shows the parking lot for the hotels. The one we stayed in was also where Rita Hayworth and Al Khan spent their honeymoon. There were photos of them in the breakfast room. I was the only one up for breakfast.

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