Yours truly, of Writing and Reading and Old-Fashioned Snail Mail

Writing and reading are my preoccupations this week. I just posted — over on my Reading Blog — about thefirst two novels I read this year, and that post featured not only my reading, but…

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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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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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End of 2019 Reading

 On this last day of the year, of the decade as well, one last post to catch up my twelve months of reading — I’ll have my official 2019 Reading List up in the next…

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Alchemical Fantasy–The Amber Garden

The second post in a week, and I’m going to sneak in one more before the year (the decade!) is done. This post has been far too long in the making. Back in mid-October, I…

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