Materfamilias Writes

Reading Enroute — Trains, Planes, and Hotel Rooms . . .

Reading Enroute — Trains, Planes, and Hotel Rooms . . .

Settled in Bordeaux now, and I’m hoping to get back to a more regular blogging practice, but we’ll see… I’ve read the next ten chapters of Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend for our ReadAlong, and I’m putting…

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Witness and Mysteries. . . What I’ve Been Reading

Witness and Mysteries. . . What I’ve Been Reading

I’m supposed to be on a blogging break now, but that, of course, means that I have more time to read, which in turn means there are more titles to record here. . . .…

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More July Reading — Two Titles for You

More July Reading — Two Titles for You

When I last wrote here, I was partway through Teju Cole’s Open City, remarking on how much Cole’s writing reminds me of W.G. Sebald’s and discovering (with some embarrassment) that I was far from the…

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Recent Reading Adventures — the Public Library and Beyond. . .

Recent Reading Adventures — the Public Library and Beyond. . .

After years of not using the public library, relying instead on the academic libraries of my grad schools and then of the university I taught at, I finally renewed my membership at the library in…

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Very Brief Recommendation — Weekend Reading, a Great Mystery

Very Brief Recommendation — Weekend Reading, a Great Mystery

I know, I know . . . But just popping my head in to say that if you followed my earlier suggestions to read John Farrow’s wonderful Emile Cinq-Mars’ mysteries, mostly set in Montreal, you…

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