2018 Reading — Halfway Report
Here’s my 2018 reading list, as it was at the halfway mark on June 30th. That we’re now three weeks into the second half of the year testifies to my desire to augment the list…
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Random Reading: Plant Life and Paris Romance
I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…
View PostLiminal Fictions — George Saunders’ Bardo and Ali Smith’s Winter
Almost two months since I last published here, and before that I began this post. At first, I only got as far as drafting a title and importing the photo below. A few days later,…
View PostWords and Images in Lyon
These cartoons, created for World Book Day 2018 by a host of international cartoonists, were displayed in a square we walked through in Lyon this past May. You’ll have to squint a bit to read…
View PostThree Titles in Search of a (Belated) Blogpost. . .
An entire month has slipped away since I last posted here — although I did write about my friend Carol Matthews’ book Minerva’s Owl: The Bereavement Phase of My Marriage over on my main blog. In case…
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