If you’ve read Ross King’s wonderful The Judgement of Paris (about the Impressionist painters), you’ll know how compellingly he puts together research to tell the story of a period of art history. In Defiant Spirits: The…
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Another quickie: Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo. I’ll admit that while this has been on my horizon for a couple of years, I was deterred somewhat by the positive response to a book about…
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A happy surprise for me earlier this summer was having a should-read turn out to be a considerable pleasure. I had put the heftily-titled In the Wake of the War Canoe: A Stirring Record of…
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What a pleasure it is, when visiting my daughters’ and son’s homes, to see books that I want to borrow. After guiding them through childhoods and adolescences filled with books, carefully chosen, introducing them to…
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We’re hitting the road today, with about 800 kilometres to cover before tonight’s stopping point, AND it’s my husband’s birthday, so just a very quick post before he wakes. I’ve been a bit frustrated because…
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