Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz
I have some tidying up today, given that I try to stack books I’ve finished to the left of my computer until I’ve at least mentioned them here, before I put them away. Pile’s getting…
View PostI have some tidying up today, given that I try to stack books I’ve finished to the left of my computer until I’ve at least mentioned them here, before I put them away. Pile’s getting…
View PostA potpourri as I try to tidy up the bookshelves at the change of year: Reading Gary Snyder’s essay collection, The Practice of the Wild, I kept recalling Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and there was something more…
View PostWe’re leaving for Amsterdam (five days there, then most of the month in France) early next week, and when I return I’ll be even further behind in recording my reading! So I’m just going to…
View PostWhen I was in Fredericton back in May, my friend Tanis MacDonald and I spent much of a happy afternoon wandering the amazing cornucopia of books that is The Owl’s Nest Bookstore. Even though I…
View PostMy friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…
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