Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater . . .
I just can’t do it. While I almost always make myself soldier on to the end of a novel, I’ve had to abandon two in the last few months. The first was the latest instalment…
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Together Again: Wagamese and Richards . . . and Wharton?
If I don’t catch up by combining several short blurbs in one post, I’ll never get to talk about a book while it’s fresh with me. So, here goes, three from May: 1. I read…
View PostCarol Matthews’ Labyrinth book
My friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…
View PostBook-buying and The Slap
If you follow my main blog, materfamilias writes, you know that we try to travel light, relying on carry-on luggage only. Besides shoes, the big challenge to this restriction is in the number of books…
View PostBewitched e-Reader
I finally bought an e-Reader — the Kobo, which is Indigo/Chapter (the Canadian answer to Amazon)’s answer to Kindle. Besides acknowledging that it might be really useful on holidays, especially given that we travel with…
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