Before I left for our trip, conscious that I should be spending at least some time thinking about the conference paper I’m presenting this month, I debated which books to bring along for work. I…
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Warning: this one’s a quick-and-dirty response (not a review). . . . Kobo, Kindle and other e-readers make a big deal of the free library that comes with one’s purchase — although there’s no question…
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I finally bought an e-Reader — the Kobo, which is Indigo/Chapter (the Canadian answer to Amazon)’s answer to Kindle. Besides acknowledging that it might be really useful on holidays, especially given that we travel with…
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Even on holiday, I’m juggling books as so many readers do. In an effort to envigorate my French, I’ve been reading Gwenaëlle Aubry’s moving Personne, a meditation, after her father’s death, on his lifelong struggle…
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You know I struggle to keep up my reading record at the best of times, but it’s even tougher to do so on holiday. Still, before titles are lost to the mists of bad memory,…
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