And a Last Few Titles of the Year . . .
I’m unhappy with how few of the books I read this year made it into a post, even in the briefest review. But I’m busy, and I’m human, and I suppose I always try to…
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Winter Scenes and Adam Gopnik’s Winter
Funnily enough, at least in retrospect, I hurried to finish Winter, a collection of last year’s (five) Massey Lectures. Joining a long list of illustrious speakers (Thomas King, Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Ursula Franklin, Noam…
View PostRichard Wagamese’s Indian Horse
Much as I got swept up by so much of Richard Wagamese’s latest novel, Indian Horse (read on my Kobo), I had reservations about it long before the ending. I loved his descriptions of the landscape,…
View PostLate Nights and Mystery
Because I’ve been so far behind in recording my reading for so long, I haven’t been grabbing impressions of what I’m reading at the moment — Twitter is giving me a venue for doing so,…
View PostTogether Again: Wagamese and Richards . . . and Wharton?
If I don’t catch up by combining several short blurbs in one post, I’ll never get to talk about a book while it’s fresh with me. So, here goes, three from May: 1. I read…
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