Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…
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Back again, to share a few more messy pages from my year’s Reading Journal — I see now that for next year’s journal (this one was the first handwritten record after years of tracking my…
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Tomorrow will be two months since I last posted here. Perhaps next year, I’ll fold this blog back into my primary blog, but for now, I’m content enough with the compromise of keeping a physical…
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I ended myhalf-year reading round-up with Liam Callanan’s Paris by the Book; between that title and thetitles I mentioned in my last post, I’ve failed to record some fifteen or so books. Too bad, because…
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Despite all the other tasks calling to me from/for this blog, most of them pleasurably if time-consuming, I’m going to take a few minutes to transcribe a paragraph from Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Nelson’s…
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