Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Once again, I’m trying to catch up to my writing so that I can get on with my reading. And I’m reminding myself that my only commitment is to record what I’ve read; no demand…
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Scarpetta and Divisadero — an odd couple!
We’ve had at least three days of Wind Warning here over the last week — blustery rain-filled days just made for staying inside and reading. I took advantage of a break between marking to read…
View Post7,000 words . . . and then some
that title, you’ll see, refers to the 7 pictures, presumably worth 1000 words each . . . So it’s three weeks or so since I last wrote here. Thanksgiving weekend, I burrowed my way through…
View PostColm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
It was purely coincidence that the novel I read directly after I read Sebald’s The Emigrants should be Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, but the two invite some worthwhile comparison. Although the reasons for the diaspora of…
View Posta little light reading? NoT!
I hope to get to a very brief review, soon, of Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, a wonderfully slow-and-careful examination of em/immigration that compares in some interesting ways with my last book, Sebald’s The Emigrants. Have any…
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