Simplest Outfit Ever and a Month’s Worth of Good Books

This is the first Reading Post in many years that I’ve published for the first (and only) time right on my main (now my only) blog. Past experience has shown me that many of you…

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Editing Bookshelves, Not Books. . . Do you curate or cull?

Two months (and some days) have passed since I last wrote here, although I have, at least, been keeping track of my reading in a hand-written journal, as I resolved to do at the beginning…

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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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Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Extra-ordinary Poems

Regularly these days, if I’m reading while I’m out somewhere, no post-it notes or notebook handy when I come across a passage that I want to come back to later, I’ll snap a photo of…

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Icy Times in a Wonderful Parisian-Set Mystery. . .Vargas and Adamsberg

Last post, I wrote a bit about the role Obligation plays in my reading. Perhaps I made it sound as if Obligation was necessarily at odds with Pleasure, and of course, that is Wrong. Wrong.…

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