Together Again: Wagamese and Richards . . . and Wharton?
If I don’t catch up by combining several short blurbs in one post, I’ll never get to talk about a book while it’s fresh with me. So, here goes, three from May: 1. I read…
View PostIf I don’t catch up by combining several short blurbs in one post, I’ll never get to talk about a book while it’s fresh with me. So, here goes, three from May: 1. I read…
View PostSome recent light reading: Jeffrey Deaver’s The Burning Wire: Another Lincoln Rhyme’s mystery, this one will have you flipping those light switches very carefully, keeping small appliances well away from water, and being generally very…
View PostMy friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…
View PostI’m going to have to speed things up a bit, so you’ll excuse some disparate pairings, I hope, and some very brief remarks. Ian McEwan’s Solar, while it is, as the Sunday Times apparently declared,…
View PostThis is just silly! I’m falling so far behind, and every time I get pulled into a new book, get caught up in the reading of it, the gap grows wider. So a bit of…
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