Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal . . . A Fast Runner, a Fast Read. . .

I’ve got to find ways to keep this blog current — it’s a project of my heart, really, yet it generally plays a weak second fiddle to my main blog. Or to reading itself. After…

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January Reading

In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…

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What I Read Last Year, Where I’m Shelving My Books This Year….

Beginning to see the light at the end of this cough-filled tunnel. . . but until I’m back at full strength, I have books to keep me company. Here’s a teaser of how the nesting’s…

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2016 Reading

January 10th, and although this cold or ‘flu is still slowing me down, it is abating (slept right through last night without coughing myself awake!); I’m going to take advantage of gradually returning health to…

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Ferrante ReadAlong — Trying to Wrap This Up, Impossibly. . . .

Okay, here goes. After beginning this ReadAlong perhaps too precipitously back in September, I’m keen now to finish before Christmas. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to consider the novel more carefully and have been gratified by…

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