Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life

I just turned the last page of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life and closed the book, and I must say it’s the most satisfying — and intriguing — novel I’ve read for some time.  The novel’s…

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The Skinny on Jeans . . .

WhereasLisa had many of herreaders commenting that she certainly could wear skinny jeans against her conviction that they made her look “like a bowling pin,” I’m just as likely, I suspect, to have my readers wincing,…

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Word-less Wednesday. . .dans le jardin . . .

Feeling a little low this morning, partly last night’s election results, partly an anticipatory homesickness (I know, isn’t that weird? But I get bouts of it before every extended trip and wish we were just…

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My Life in French, Part Two . . .

 If you’ve been reading here for a while, you might remember that I began writing about my history with the French language, inspired by a book sculpture we brought back from Paris two years ago,…

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Paris Preparations, Anticipations, Memories . . .

Although this is, obviously, a post on Paris travels, and it includes references to my history with/in the city, it’s not the one I referred to in my last post. The promised post to come…

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