Still Here . . .
If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve been weighed down the last few weeks by my mother’s decline toward Hospice care and end-of-life — compounded by mid-term fatigue. The result has been an…
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This 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 PostParis, ah Paris . . .
A few days ago, Sue at Une Femme listed a few of her favourite Paris-themed books as gift suggestions, and she invited readers to add to her list. I left this comment at her post,…
View PostThree French/Paris Memoirs
I’m dismayed to see that of my list of books read so far in 2012, I’ve written here about only 23 of the 50+ titles. I could make a dent in that by grouping together…
View PostAntonia Fraser’s Must You Go?
After I’ve finished a book, I don’t put it back on the shelf until I’ve registered something about it on this reading blog. Occasionally I manage to write several hundred words of response, analysis, perhaps…
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