Deluxe
Quickly trying to tidy up before the new term begins on Monday, I’ll just note that I read Dana Thomas’ Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre over the holidays and found it both entertaining and…
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Catch-up Post at Boxing Day: another mystery and more Edeet Ravel
Even when our family budget was constantly stretched with the demands of raising our four kids, we never, ever shopped on Boxing Day, no matter how enticing the supposed bargains. For us, Boxing Day has…
View Postkristeva again, and Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News
So it turns out that when you spend a night helping a new baby be born and then spends several hour a day for the next few days helping that little one’s parents get some…
View PostHockey Literature — Randall Maggs’ Night Work
After I wrote about Randall Maggs’ captivating collection of hockey poems, Night Work, the other day, I asked his publisher, Kitty Lewis (who had left a gracious thank-you comment at the post) if I might…
View PostReading, by Chance . . . Arriving at Edeet Ravel’s Look for Me
I was very lucky, growing up. I lived in New Westminster, a small city just outside Vancouver, BC, and although the population then was just 40,000, our library had an impressive retinue of professional librarians…
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