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August in October . . . Some Titles and Pages for You

August in October . . . Some Titles and Pages for You

Now that I’ve got some of you coming around to see the shelf-culling and the redecorating, I should catch you up with jottings from the handwritten Reading Journal I’ve been keeping this year. The last…

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End-of-year Catch-up

End-of-year Catch-up

I began writing this post over two weeks ago, and then Christmas preparations and festivities took over. Let me try again to sneak one last post into 2015… Short shrift though this post might be,…

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A Little (More) Light Reading . . .

A Little (More) Light Reading . . .

I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…

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This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

A potpourri as I try to tidy up the bookshelves at the change of year: Reading Gary Snyder’s essay collection, The Practice of the Wild, I kept recalling Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and there was something more…

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Ross King’s Defiant Spirits (about the Group of Seven)

Ross King’s Defiant Spirits (about the Group of Seven)

If you’ve read Ross King’s wonderful The Judgement of Paris (about the Impressionist painters), you’ll know how compellingly he puts together research to tell the story of a period of art history. In Defiant Spirits: The…

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