Reading Sebald in Bordeaux

St George slays the dragon on the front façade of Eglise St. Croix here in Bordeaux. I was pleased to come across the sculpture just after I began reading W.G Sebald’s remarkable long prose poem,…

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Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life

I just turned the last page of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life and closed the book, and I must say it’s the most satisfying — and intriguing — novel I’ve read for some time.  The novel’s…

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A Little (More) Light Reading . . .

I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’m trying to set up an account with Bloglovin’ — ahead of Google Reader pulling the rug from under us. . . .

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And I’m baaaaack!

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. . . . this is not a good year for my reading blog. Not at all. I have been keeping up over at Materfamilias Writes, and if you’ve checked…

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