A Classic Discovery — Madame Bovary

Warning: this one’s a quick-and-dirty response (not a review). . . . Kobo, Kindle and other e-readers make a big deal of the free library that comes with one’s purchase — although there’s no question…

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London Blogging Synchronicity

How’s this for synchronicity? The day before yesterday, my London friend, Alison, posted a (much better) photo of this brilliant graffiti. Her photo is taken closer up and directly in front, rather than at an…

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she did it!

We made a very quick ferry trip over to Vancouver yesterday to attend my daughter Megan’s graduation (she’s finished Registered Massage Therapy school and now has four months to study for the board exams) and…

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Bewitched e-Reader

I finally bought an e-Reader — the Kobo, which is Indigo/Chapter (the Canadian answer to Amazon)’s answer to Kindle. Besides acknowledging that it might be really useful on holidays, especially given that we travel with…

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April Showers (or not) and May Flowers (we hope)

Besides being pretty, pretty, pretty, these photos of London gardens (the one above of a keeper’s cottage in Hyde Park) serve to demonstrate just how far ahead the weather brought the gardens in a climate…

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