My friend and neighbour Carol Matthews has folded a lifetime’s worth of wisdom into her slim book, Questions for Ariadne: The Labyrinth and the End of Times. The book is structured as a conversation with…
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I’m going to have to speed things up a bit, so you’ll excuse some disparate pairings, I hope, and some very brief remarks. Ian McEwan’s Solar, while it is, as the Sunday Times apparently declared,…
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This is just silly! I’m falling so far behind, and every time I get pulled into a new book, get caught up in the reading of it, the gap grows wider. So a bit of…
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If you follow my main blog, materfamilias writes, you know that we try to travel light, relying on carry-on luggage only. Besides shoes, the big challenge to this restriction is in the number of books…
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Before I left for our trip, conscious that I should be spending at least some time thinking about the conference paper I’m presenting this month, I debated which books to bring along for work. I…
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