Et en français, nous avons. . .
This is a fly-by visit (or is that flyover?) just to note the two French novels I read this summer so that I can move them back to the bookshelf. Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse is wonderfully…
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Richard C. Morais’ The Hundred-Foot Journey
A quick summer reading update: I suspect that many of you would enjoy Richard C. Morais’ The Hundred-Foot Journey which follows a young boy from bustling Mumbai to rural France (with a short stop in London)…
View PostA Little (More) Light Reading . . .
I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…
View PostThis 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 PostC.S. Richardson’s The Emperor of Paris
I was intrigued to discover this video posted on YouTube advertising C.S. Richardson’s The Emperor of Paris (. I think it does a lovely job of capturing the novel’s seductive enigmas, although the necessary compression…
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