Materfamilias Writes

Halfway Through My Reading Year, A List for You. . . .

Halfway Through My Reading Year, A List for You. . . .

Tomorrow will be two months since I last posted here. Perhaps next year, I’ll fold this blog back into my primary blog, but for now, I’m content enough with the compromise of keeping a physical…

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January Reading — New Formats for Recording and Reporting

January Reading — New Formats for Recording and Reporting

Okay, so far I’m liking the greater immediacy and ease of posting the books I’m reading on Instagram. I don’t feel as compelled (or constrained!) to wait until I’ve got a few decently structured paragraphs…

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Some Titles In Search of a Post? A Miscellaneous Collection . . .

Some Titles In Search of a Post? A Miscellaneous Collection . . .

Have any of you read Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road or seen the movie based on this wonderful 20-year correspondence between a New York writer and the London used-book store whose address gives the book…

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Mysteries and History and France and French. . .

Mysteries and History and France and French. . .

The light reading continues. . . I very much enjoyed both of Susie Steiner’s Manon Bradshaw’s mysteries, recommended by Sue at High Heels in the Wilderness. Don’t you love her bookposts?! (and if you don’t…

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Serious Summer Reading. . . and some Not So Serious

Serious Summer Reading. . . and some Not So Serious

I’ve just finished reading Philippe Sands’ East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes against Humanity.” I’d come across a recommendation to this winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction prize and added…

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