Scott Handville
What Are We Reading?
In 1983 I started reading a series of books which became known as a group from the title of the first book, “Tales of the City”. The series follows a disparate group who rent rooms from the mysterious, yet motherly, Anna Madrigal, at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco. The first book was published in 1978; the last book was just published this year. There have been a lot of social changes in America since 1978, and the lives of these characters reflect those changes throughout the decades. As I was reading this series, there were only 6 novels in …