Robert Hough and Final Confession
Almost a month since I’ve written, and less than a week ’til the end of the year round-up. So, I’m obviously sticking with the short and sweet (or quick and dirty?!) reviews. . . Robert…
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Bijaboji — A Spectacular Rowed Trip
I won’t say you can’t possibly understand how I felt when my mother arrived for a three-day stay here without a book to read. But you, of course, weren’t there each afternoon all those decades…
View PostSomewhere Towards the End: Diane Athill
I’ve already quoted from Diana Athill’s wonderful Somewhere Towards the End on my other blog, where I was talking about drawing and loved her observation on the subject. But she’s quotable on so many other…
View PostWilliam Boyd’s Restless
We’re hitting the road today, with about 800 kilometres to cover before tonight’s stopping point, AND it’s my husband’s birthday, so just a very quick post before he wakes. I’ve been a bit frustrated because…
View PostThat Summer in Paris
Fiction-writing often seems to be a ventriloquist’s game, the writingwriter throwing a voice into a narrator with varying degrees of credibility. Perhaps as with ventiloquism, we are swayed to find the act more convincing if…
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