Introducing New-To-Me Writers: Elif Shafak and Bernardine Evaristo

January has been a good month for reading discoveries. I began the year with two books in a row by authors previously unknown to me and whose backlists I will happily work my way through…

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Monday Momentum (drawn from a Portland garden)

 Monday morning, the first day I’ve felt really well since being felled by something Gastro last Tuesday night in Portland. You know, just after I posted about finally achieving traction on my 2020 schedule such…

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Creative Retreat in Portland, Oregon (Self-Styled. . . .

I’m writing from Portland, Oregon, this morning, and just as the last time we visited this city,  snow was beginning to fall in Vancouver as we drove away from home. . . Last time we were…

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Lists and Confessions (and Shopping Bags in the Closet. . . .

Having published my list of Books I Read in 2019 over on my Reading Blog earlier this week, I’ve also managed to put together  the list I made after Sue (High Heels in the Wilderness)…

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2019 Reading List

Okay, here’s what I read in 2019. The links will take you to a post, and in 2019, for the first time, those posts mostly include photos of the relevant pages of my hand-written Reading…

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