GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Thursday shared two things he’s been watching at home when he’s not dealing with COVID-19.
“I’ve tried for three years to try to get my three kids to read books – wildly unsuccessfully. And my daughter and a friend of hers decided to create a book club because it would give the two of them, plus a number of their friends, a reason to chat every night and something to talk about. And they have now been reading books for a couple weeks, talking every single night about what they’re reading in the books that they’ve got. They’ve even asked me what books I would recommend that they read.
“Honestly, it was a really good thing. It might be the only good thing I can think of that’s come out of all of this,” he said.
Baker said he’s not watching Ozark on Netflix. “I could only watch a few episodes of Ozark before I decided that if I kept watching it I was going to have to jump off the roof of my house,” he said.
What would he recommend?
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About Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine’s website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.
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The Biggest Little Farm, which is one of the best documentaries ever. It’s magical, it’s lyrical, and it’s beautiful. And it’s only 90 minutes so it’s not like you have to watch 14 parts to get to the end.
“It’s about two people who live in an apartment in Santa Monica. They got a dog from a pound and they love the dog, but every time they left the apartment to go to work the dog would start barking and it would bark until they came home. So they eventually got an eviction notice from their landlord and it was either the dog or they had to move. At that point in time, they decided that they would get a series of investors and go do something they always wanted to do, which is to create a natural farm. It’s awesome. I would highly recommend it to everybody.”
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