First of all, let me say what a difference my membership at the Vancouver Public Library has made to my reading patterns this past year. The ability to download e-books, even from different countries while…
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When I last wrote here, I was partway through Teju Cole’s Open City, remarking on how much Cole’s writing reminds me of W.G. Sebald’s and discovering (with some embarrassment) that I was far from the…
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Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…
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It occurs to me that I could enliven this blog occasionally with photos of bookstores and other visual references to reading. I often notice such things when travelling — as in this bookstore window in…
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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,…
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