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)…
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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…
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If you follow my main blog, materfamilias writes, you know that we try to travel light, relying on carry-on luggage only. Besides shoes, the big challenge to this restriction is in the number of books…
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I finally bought an e-Reader — the Kobo, which is Indigo/Chapter (the Canadian answer to Amazon)’s answer to Kindle. Besides acknowledging that it might be really useful on holidays, especially given that we travel with…
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Read on vacation: Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities — poor Pater, there were so many passages that I had to read out loud so that he could appreciate the hilariously dry wit along with…
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