A Few Good Books I Read Last Month . . .

Another good reading month, was April.  It seems that no amount of busy-ness (Italian classes, fitness workouts, family life, knitting and sketching and bread-making, FaceTime connections with friends, kayaking and cycling and tramping through forests…

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February, Books Read: Mysteries, Non-Fiction, French Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction in Translation. . . . All the Books!

Whew! That’s a title, eh? I figured you might be wearying of “November Books Read, Books Read in December, January Books Read, etc., but I couldn’t quite rise to snappy. I’ll try harder next month…

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September Reading: So Much Goodness!

Rainy and windy here in Vancouver today. Perfect weather for curling up with a book, and I have a few good candidates (currently reading Iza’s Ballad by Margo Szabó and Marc E. Agronin’s The End of…

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Covid-19 Reading. . . Seven Titles To Distract, if not Comfort you. . . .

Most of us are finding more time to read these days, although I’m hearing from many who find it tough to concentrate on their books, from others who only want to read “gentle” stories.  I,…

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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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