Two Books, Worlds Apart

In the more than two weeks since I last posted, I’ve read a couple of books: first, the (very) light A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable. It’s well-written, and the frame story is interesting enough —…

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Reading for Distraction. . .

I thought some of you might enjoy this short essay by poet Molly Fisk on Not Reading — and I’m curious to know whether any of you have ever tried going without reading for a challenging…

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End-of-year Catch-up

I began writing this post over two weeks ago, and then Christmas preparations and festivities took over. Let me try again to sneak one last post into 2015… Short shrift though this post might be,…

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Fiction Therapy

Sometimes I just want my reading to be entertaining and well-written, not necessarily light, but defnnitely lighter than Karl Ove Knaussgard’s struggles…. After this last weekend, all I wanted to do was pull the covers…

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Reading Report from Bordeaux

I’m not sure how much time I’ll find on holiday to write about my reading, but I do want to at least keep recording titles and a few impressions. And I’m so loving the comments…

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