Still Here . . .
If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve been weighed down the last few weeks by my mother’s decline toward Hospice care and end-of-life — compounded by mid-term fatigue. The result has been an…
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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…
View PostParis, ah Paris . . .
A few days ago, Sue at Une Femme listed a few of her favourite Paris-themed books as gift suggestions, and she invited readers to add to her list. I left this comment at her post,…
View PostAntonia Fraser’s Must You Go?
After I’ve finished a book, I don’t put it back on the shelf until I’ve registered something about it on this reading blog. Occasionally I manage to write several hundred words of response, analysis, perhaps…
View PostDerrida’s Gift of Death
I’ve decided there’s no good reason to separate my more academic reading out of the more recreational, and that this is a good spot to spark my summary of/response to scholarly texts — it’s an…
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