With all the demands of moving, I must admit that I wished I hadn’t committed to a Monday post on those first ten (short, admittedly) chapters of the “Childhood” section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant…
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You may not be surprised to learn that moving is interfering with my blogging. We are beginning to settle in here: I’ve had three decent sleeps in the last six; the fridge and pantry have…
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I’ve chosen four-and-a-bit pages to begin our Readalong with, reserving this post for a discussion of the Prologue. This small “assignment” isn’t suggested simply to give you time to catch up after the long weekend,…
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Bit of a whirlwind ’round here, as you might imagine, what with all the moving boxes and the trying to understand this new space, the new lifestyle we’ve embarked on, how we will want and…
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I’ve just finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s marvellous memoir about learning and living in Italian, a memoir she felt compelled to write in Italian (but which has been translated to English by Ann Goldstein who is best…
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