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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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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Back in June (I know!) I shared some of the titles I’d read during my three weeks’ travel, and I promised to share the rest later. Well, this is definitely later. . . . And…
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Sixty pages in, I’m loving J.J. Lee’s The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. Precise, lyrical writing that moves between sections on cultural history (of men’s wear…
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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…
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