Beginning to see the light at the end of this cough-filled tunnel. . . but until I’m back at full strength, I have books to keep me company. Here’s a teaser of how the nesting’s…
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We’re back in Bordeaux after a busy week in Italy — a few days at our daughter’s home in a small town outside Rome, a few days in Florence, a day trip to Naples. I…
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We’re back in our Bordeaux rental now, where it will be good to sleep more than four nights in a row in the same bed, to have easy access to laundry facilities (we have a…
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With all the demands of moving, I must admit that I wished I hadn’t committed to a Monday post on those first ten (short, admittedly) chapters of the “Childhood” section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant…
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I’ve just finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s marvellous memoir about learning and living in Italian, a memoir she felt compelled to write in Italian (but which has been translated to English by Ann Goldstein who is best…
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