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Apologies for not posting more often. I wait until I have three or more reads I’ve loved and want to share.  Too, I’m grieving my beautiful sister, Mary Beth, with whom I always discussed books, movies, tv series. In her last months she listened to books, as she couldn’t hold a book in her hands.

The fight for Algerian independence from France began in November 1954. That brutal guerilla war would continue until 1961, when French president Charles de Gaulle gave up Algeria, an African colony France had ruled since 1830. Among the French, the war was unpopular and misunderstood. Still, they had as many as 450,000 soldiers in Algeria.

The 23rd Chicago Humanities Festival ended mid-November; I’m sorry to see it go. A month long event, the Festival offers one hundred programs centered on a single theme. This year, America. There was a one-man play, a cabaret, and talks by scholars, writers, educators, thinkers, politicians, and comedians. I felt like I was back at