After I’ve finished a book, I don’t put it back on the shelf until I’ve registered something about it on this reading blog. Occasionally I manage to write several hundred words of response, analysis, perhaps…
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Sixty pages in, I’m loving J.J. Lee’s The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. Precise, lyrical writing that moves between sections on cultural history (of men’s wear…
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Photos taken in Belleville, 2011 — posted about here and here and here I’m reading Nancy Huston’s Infrared, following its rather densely interior narrative (I’ll contradict myself, I suppose, in mentioning its descriptions of Florence, of Italian art,…
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I’ve decided there’s no good reason to separate my more academic reading out of the more recreational, and that this is a good spot to spark my summary of/response to scholarly texts — it’s an…
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I love when something I’m reading bumps into something I’ve read recently. Of course, this sends the little file clerk who presides over my memory scurrying through the vaults, tossing pages frantically hither and yon,…
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