Beautiful Autumn at Home in New England Life has once again stepped in to waylay my plan to blog monthly. With apologies, this current post is almost a month overdue. Of the 4 books planned to read in October, I completed 3 and I declared a DNF on the 4th title. I am not one who will DNF on a regular basis. I am stubborn and almost always feel an obligation to finish what I start. However, this strange holiday season, when sequestered at home, hearing reports of Covid-19 death tolls rising hourly, I, like so many others, am already sad and anxious. Taking on a read that will concentrate on the Israeli/Palestine conflict was more than I could manage. "The Almond Tree" by Michelle Cohen Corasanti is a fictional account of one Palestinian family from the early 1950's to current times. My DNF is no reflection on the quality of Ms. Corasanti's writing, merely the wrong book at this time. Her Own Place ...