A Potpourri of Titles

Yes, I’m still here. Some of my recent reading has been alongside my students in a 1st-year Literature and Culture class — with them, I’ve read Sheila Watson’sThe Double Hook, a Canadian classic, alongside Michael…

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Still Here . . .

If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve been weighed down the last few weeks by my mother’s decline toward Hospice care and end-of-life — compounded by mid-term fatigue. The result has been an…

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Two Books on the English Language

Many of you who took a 1st-year English course — called something like Composition & Rhetoric or Writing for University — will perhaps remember working your way through an anthology of essays — to which…

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7,000 words . . . and then some

that title, you’ll see, refers to the 7 pictures, presumably worth 1000 words each . . . So it’s three weeks or so since I last wrote here. Thanksgiving weekend, I burrowed my way through…

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A Reading Medley — mystery, Canadiana, knitting et al

It’s a long while since I last posted — three weeks? I know that part of the reason is that my last post mentioned wanting to follow up on my discussion of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.