Funnily enough, at least in retrospect, I hurried to finish Winter, a collection of last year’s (five) Massey Lectures. Joining a long list of illustrious speakers (Thomas King, Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Ursula Franklin, Noam…
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I’m posting the same text on both my blogs this morning as it seems to fit equally in both contexts. So it’s overhere as well . . . Much as we loved Amsterdam when visiting…
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If I’d known what was awaiting me in our rental home in Bordeaux, I wouldn’t have bothered loading up my Kobo with holiday reading. Here’s a sample of the shelves, a plethora of delicious possibilities…
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It occurs to me that I could enliven this blog occasionally with photos of bookstores and other visual references to reading. I often notice such things when travelling — as in this bookstore window in…
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We’re leaving for Amsterdam (five days there, then most of the month in France) early next week, and when I return I’ll be even further behind in recording my reading! So I’m just going to…
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