David Adams Richards speaks out

Today’s Globe and Mail includes an adapted excerpt from David Adams Richards’ new book, God Is, an excerpt that I think is important, controversial, and well worth reading. The headline for the essay suggests its…

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Best-sellers I’m Not Sold on

I’ve almost forgotten to mention that I recently read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luis Zafon after reading several enthusiastic references. I ordered it thinking it would be the perfect summer escape reading —…

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At Death’s Door with Sandra Gilbert

I’m reading Sandra Gilbert’s Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve and it’s helping me articulate something of what I experienced intensely through/at Pater’s vasovagal episodes (fainting) last week. She uses Georges Batailles…

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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…

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