First book of the year was Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog — title rivals Atkinson’s last Jackson Brodie novel, When Will There Be Good News. I’m such a fan of this series (four…
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This is not getting easier, this keeping up with recording some thoughts about my reading. I seem to get further and further behind. For example, although I finished it over a month ago, I haven’t…
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I’m behind again, so will only say of Elizabeth George’s This Body of Death that it is complex and satisfying and, ultimately, quite sad. Her novels generally offer social commentary although I’ve never found this…
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For too many hours of this past road trip, I thought I should keep Pater company while it wasn’t my turn to drive. For some of that time, I read to him from a lovely…
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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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