Tiger, tiger . . .
Pater’s recent enjoyment of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies guided his choice, in an airport bookstore several weeks ago, of Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker-winning, The White Tiger, and I’m so glad that was the case.…
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Winter view from a Summer Perspective
Summertime and the paddling is pleasant! View from my deck yesterday afternoon A few years ago, I commented to a neighbour, during a third rainless week in mid-September (which followed a dry, hot August) that…
View PostReacher in Paris
If you’ve spent any time reading here, or especially if you’ve spent any time reading over here, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a francophile, and also that my husband and I have been…
View PostDon Domanski and metaphor
I’ve just read Canadian poet Don Domanski’s Ralph Gustafson lecture Poetry and the Sacred, published as a beautiful hand-stitched chapbook. As I was recently thinking about metaphor while reading Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Dickens’…
View PostA Reading Medley — mystery, Canadiana, knitting et al
It’s a long while since I last posted — three weeks? I know that part of the reason is that my last post mentioned wanting to follow up on my discussion of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea…
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