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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My friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…
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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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Keith Richards’ Life: what a lively romp of a book. I’m not sure how much Richards wrote and how much “co-writer” James Fox is responsible for. There are indications throughout, though, in excerpts from Richards’…
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I’ve already quoted from Diana Athill’s wonderful Somewhere Towards the End on my other blog, where I was talking about drawing and loved her observation on the subject. But she’s quotable on so many other…
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