Okay, seriously remiss here — way back on April 17th I posted that I would “soon” say something about Muriel Barbery’s Gourmet Rhapsody. Meanwhile, I’ve been juggling a few books, and spending quite a bit…
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And no sooner had I posted the link to Bloomsbury’s discovery of bookish necklaces, than I found Laura’s post pointing us to wonderful classic-Penguin-book-cover postcards. Head over there and she’ll show you how to get…
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You love books? You love necklaces? You really MUST check this out . . . (and there’s so much else for booklovers at A Bloomsbury Life!)
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Let’s see now, what have I almost forgotten to record here . . . Well, I mentioned earlier that I re-read Richard Wagamese’s Ragged Company along with my students this term, primarily for its focus…
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Some light reading: Clyde Ford’s Precious Cargo, set on the West Coast just below the border — I’ve been collecting representations of boats in West Coast literature, and this nicely-written mystery has them in spades.…
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