Materfamilias Writes

Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That

Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That

I thought that Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That might make a hat-trick, withthese other two titles, of books I couldn’t finish.  The rants of one particular character — against office and government bureaucracies, against taxes,…

View Post

Carol Matthews’ Labyrinth book

Carol Matthews’ Labyrinth book

My friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…

View Post

At Death’s Door with Sandra Gilbert

At Death’s Door with Sandra Gilbert

I’m reading Sandra Gilbert’s Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve and it’s helping me articulate something of what I experienced intensely through/at Pater’s vasovagal episodes (fainting) last week. She uses Georges Batailles…

View Post

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.