2018 Reading List

Ta-Da! Only the 2nd of the year, and I’ve published my 2018 Reading List! Not only is that a record for promptness, but I think this is my longest list yet — and includes the…

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Some Titles In Search of a Post? A Miscellaneous Collection . . .

Have any of you read Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road or seen the movie based on this wonderful 20-year correspondence between a New York writer and the London used-book store whose address gives the book…

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2018 Reading — Halfway Report

Here’s my 2018 reading list, as it was at the halfway mark on June 30th. That we’re now three weeks into the second half of the year testifies to my desire to augment the list…

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Random Reading: Plant Life and Paris Romance

I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…

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Spoiled for Choice, An Embarrassment of Riches, Too Many Books? — Never!

First of all, let me say what a difference my membership at the Vancouver Public Library has made to my reading patterns this past year. The ability to download e-books, even from different countries while…

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