Two Mysteries and Some Italy. . .
You know I love my mystery novels. . . I made sure to download a few to my Kobo eReader for the long plane rides to and from Paris. Peter Robinson’s Abattoir Blues is his 22nd…
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H is for Hello Again. . . and also for Helen Macdonald’s Hawk book. . .
Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…
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I scarcely posted at all this year, and there’s no point apologizing for that. I did book-Tweet a fair bit when I was reading Jeannette Winterson’s and Quentin Crisp’s memoirs, and I thought about recovering…
View PostDonna Leon’s About Face
Only one chapter into Donna Leon’s About Face, and already I’d found two sentences worth remarking First, for the brilliantly sly balancing of its second (post-semi-colon) independent clause: “He recognized the Conte’s lawyer and his…
View PostClaire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs
Okay, so what if, instead of making a big deal out of not having time to write a decent review, I just churn out a few posts giving quick impressions of some of the most…
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