The combination of a Paris visit (a week with my sister at the beginning of May) and my just-beginning Retirement has me ramping up my efforts with the French language. Listening to French radio and…
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You know I love my mystery novels. . . I made sure to download a few to my Kobo eReader for the long plane rides to and from Paris. Peter Robinson’s Abattoir Blues is his 22nd…
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Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…
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I scarcely posted at all this year, and there’s no point apologizing for that. I did book-Tweet a fair bit when I was reading Jeannette Winterson’s and Quentin Crisp’s memoirs, and I thought about recovering…
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Only one chapter into Donna Leon’s About Face, and already I’d found two sentences worth remarking First, for the brilliantly sly balancing of its second (post-semi-colon) independent clause: “He recognized the Conte’s lawyer and his…
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