What a pleasure it is, when visiting my daughters’ and son’s homes, to see books that I want to borrow. After guiding them through childhoods and adolescences filled with books, carefully chosen, introducing them to…
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For too many hours of this past road trip, I thought I should keep Pater company while it wasn’t my turn to drive. For some of that time, I read to him from a lovely…
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We’re hitting the road today, with about 800 kilometres to cover before tonight’s stopping point, AND it’s my husband’s birthday, so just a very quick post before he wakes. I’ve been a bit frustrated because…
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Perhaps you’ll excuse me. Or perhaps you’ve learned not to expect too much here. We’ve had family visiting for the last ten days — not much reading got done, never mind writing about it. So…
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Read on vacation: Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities — poor Pater, there were so many passages that I had to read out loud so that he could appreciate the hilariously dry wit along with…
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