Derrida’s Gift of Death
I’ve decided there’s no good reason to separate my more academic reading out of the more recreational, and that this is a good spot to spark my summary of/response to scholarly texts — it’s an…
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Reading Concatenation — of Asparagus and Painting and Pleasing Coincidences
I love when something I’m reading bumps into something I’ve read recently. Of course, this sends the little file clerk who presides over my memory scurrying through the vaults, tossing pages frantically hither and yon,…
View PostWinter Scenes and Adam Gopnik’s Winter
Funnily enough, at least in retrospect, I hurried to finish Winter, a collection of last year’s (five) Massey Lectures. Joining a long list of illustrious speakers (Thomas King, Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Ursula Franklin, Noam…
View PostBorrowed Libraries . . .
If I’d known what was awaiting me in our rental home in Bordeaux, I wouldn’t have bothered loading up my Kobo with holiday reading. Here’s a sample of the shelves, a plethora of delicious possibilities…
View PostReading in Amsterdam
It occurs to me that I could enliven this blog occasionally with photos of bookstores and other visual references to reading. I often notice such things when travelling — as in this bookstore window in…
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