January Reading

In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…

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André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs

I know, I know, I know. I made promises I’m not keeping here, but life’s a bit busy right now, and the va-et-vient means that sometimes the books I’d like to write about are not…

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City Poems by Méira Cook

Perhaps what I should do is try to aim for a weekly post and just say as much as I can in the time I have about the books I’ve read that week. Sadly, even…

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Londoners!

Yes, I still have to complete my 2011 reading list, but just can’t resist copying out this passage from Craig Taylor’s Londoners. This is from the interview with civil engineer, Nick Tyler, who works with,…

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Thinking About Cities. . . .and Books about Cities

In contrast with my last post, the two books I’ll briefly discuss here are much more subtantial. Both non-fiction, Stephen Scobie’s The Measure of Paris and Mark Kingwell’s Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City speak to/about our…

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Copyright

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