Toni Morrison’s Home
So where was I? Ah, yes, I’ve managed to move my catch-up from First, to Second. . . and that only took me three weeks. Time to get to Third base here, and that’s the…
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More on Nancy Huston’s Infrared
Okay, let’s follow up last post’s “First” with at least one more ordinal . . . . For “second,” I give you Nancy Huston’s Infrared. I’ll say right away that this would not be the…
View PostAntonia Fraser’s Must You Go?
After I’ve finished a book, I don’t put it back on the shelf until I’ve registered something about it on this reading blog. Occasionally I manage to write several hundred words of response, analysis, perhaps…
View PostSummer reading: J.J. Lee measures father, son, and suit
Sixty pages in, I’m loving J.J. Lee’s The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. Precise, lyrical writing that moves between sections on cultural history (of men’s wear…
View PostNancy Huston’s Infrared, Bilingualism Quotation
Photos taken in Belleville, 2011 — posted about here and here and here I’m reading Nancy Huston’s Infrared, following its rather densely interior narrative (I’ll contradict myself, I suppose, in mentioning its descriptions of Florence, of Italian art,…
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