A Few Good Mysteries, Belatedly. . .

Ay-yi-yi! I’ve just found this unfinished draft sitting in my files, waiting patiently for completion. I started it weeks ago. . . .Let me add a few titles to it and press “publish.” I seem…

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More of my Travel Reading

Back in June (I know!) I shared some of the titles I’d read during my three weeks’ travel, and I promised to share the rest later. Well, this is definitely later. . . . And…

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What I Read While Travelling. . .

Thinking back to the years when the biggest challenge to carry-on-only travel was how to fit enough books into our cases, I am ever so appreciative of e-books, especially since I now borrow them so…

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Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to,  as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…

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Getting (Productively) Messy with Maggie Nelson. . .

Despite all the other tasks calling to me from/for this blog, most of them pleasurably if time-consuming, I’m going to take a few minutes to transcribe a paragraph from Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Nelson’s…

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Copyright

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