More mysteries
Lee Child’s are not the only mysteries I’ve read lately. I’ve also worked my way through Stephen Booth’s The Dead Place, Quintin Jardine’s Autographs in the Rain, and Val McDermid’s Beneath the Bleeding, all of…
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Lee Child’s Jack Reacher
Having just come back from a few days in Toronto, I was primed to appreciate this, from Lee Child’s Without Fail: Every city has a cusp, where the good part of town turns bad. Washingon…
View PostRichard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist in Lisbon
This past spring, in preparation for our trip to Lisbon, I read two novels set in that city, Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon and Robert Wilson’s A Small Death in Lisbon, which between them…
View PostBleak House
I’ve just finished Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, and I’ve enjoyed it so much. Except for reading Hard Times about ten years ago as a Teaching Assistant, I hadn’t read Dickens for decades, until I decided…
View Postreading writing
Last week, I finally read the manuscript of a colleague’s novel. I’ve had it on my office desk since last fall, having mentioned to her that I’d like to read it after hearing she’d had…
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