Three for the Big Armchair — two mysteries and a Paris memoir

Some recent light reading: Jeffrey Deaver’s The Burning Wire: Another Lincoln Rhyme’s mystery, this one will have you flipping those light switches very carefully, keeping small appliances well away from water, and being generally very…

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A Classic Discovery — Madame Bovary

Warning: this one’s a quick-and-dirty response (not a review). . . . Kobo, Kindle and other e-readers make a big deal of the free library that comes with one’s purchase — although there’s no question…

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Reading in Paris

Even on holiday, I’m juggling books as so many readers do. In an effort to envigorate my French, I’ve been reading Gwenaëlle Aubry’s moving Personne, a meditation, after her father’s death, on his lifelong struggle…

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Light Reading and Not so Light . . .

You know I struggle to keep up my reading record at the best of times, but it’s even tougher to do so on holiday. Still, before titles are lost to the mists of bad memory,…

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