Reading Fireside? A Dozen Titles for You. . .

 Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…

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Mystery, Travel, Romance, Engaging Literary Fiction, and a KidLit title — A Mixed Bag for you

 Back again, to share a few more messy pages from my year’s Reading Journal — I see now that for next year’s journal (this one was the first handwritten record after years of tracking my…

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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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January Reading — New Formats for Recording and Reporting

Okay, so far I’m liking the greater immediacy and ease of posting the books I’m reading on Instagram. I don’t feel as compelled (or constrained!) to wait until I’ve got a few decently structured paragraphs…

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Liminal Fictions — George Saunders’ Bardo and Ali Smith’s Winter

Almost two months since I last published here,  and before that I began this post. At first, I only got as far as drafting a title and importing the photo below.  A few days later,…

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