Three French/Paris Memoirs

I’m dismayed to see that of my list of books read so far in 2012, I’ve written here about only 23 of the 50+ titles. I could make a dent in that by grouping together…

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Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

I loved Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress which I found on the remaindered table at Munro’s Books in Victoria where I also picked up Per Peterson’s Out Stealing Horses last winter. It often strikes…

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Recently Read Genre fiction

Continuing my clean-up/catch-up project of grouping my lighter reading together so that I at least mention here the titles on my 2012 Reading list, here are the mystery novels I’ve read since the spring: Patricia…

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Toni Morrison’s Home

So where was I? Ah, yes, I’ve managed to move my catch-up from First, to Second. . . and that only took me three weeks. Time to get to Third base here, and that’s the…

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More on Nancy Huston’s Infrared

Okay, let’s follow up last post’s “First” with at least one more ordinal . . . . For “second,” I give you Nancy Huston’s Infrared. I’ll say right away that this would not be the…

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