Yes, I’m still here. Some of my recent reading has been alongside my students in a 1st-year Literature and Culture class — with them, I’ve read Sheila Watson’sThe Double Hook, a Canadian classic, alongside Michael…
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This is a fly-by visit (or is that flyover?) just to note the two French novels I read this summer so that I can move them back to the bookshelf. Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse is wonderfully…
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I haven’t been here for a while, have I? But ay-yi-yi! I postedover here about my response to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and that is getting a reaction. If you don’t read my other blog, but…
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I have some tidying up today, given that I try to stack books I’ve finished to the left of my computer until I’ve at least mentioned them here, before I put them away. Pile’s getting…
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I’ve mentioned here before what a fabulous library we’ve had access to in the house we rent in Bordeaux. French, English, poetry, travel memoir, autobiography, history, political analysis. . . it’s all here. So many…
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