Bleak 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…
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reading 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…
View PostLewis Hyde’s The Gift
I’ve been reading Lewis Hyde’s scholarly study of gift economies and their relation to the artist, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, and finding it utterly absorbing. Although this is not directly…
View PostStories in Perfume
I’m reading Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York and I’ve come across an image I love. Céline Ellena, the daughter of parfumeur Jean-Claude Ellena, is…
View PostTim Bowling’s The Lost Coast
I’m not sure if I’ll keep this blog up, but I’m finding Materfamilias Writes, my other home on the web, is getting a bit too cluttered. As well, I’m not sure how much my readers…
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