A Historical Survey . . .
A hasty grouping of history novels so that I could move some books back onto the shelves: The best of the bunch, Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies. Another very satisfying historical novel is Eva…
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C.S. Richardson’s The Emperor of Paris
I was intrigued to discover this video posted on YouTube advertising C.S. Richardson’s The Emperor of Paris (. I think it does a lovely job of capturing the novel’s seductive enigmas, although the necessary compression…
View PostThree 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…
View PostDai 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…
View PostRecently 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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