end-of-summer scent
With the start of term speeding toward me, I’m trying to gobble as much fun reading as I can — right now, I’m devouring the bonbon that is Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise. More on that…
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Reading The Walrus
One of my struggles as a reader is trying to keep up with the great writing in The Walrus magazine. I always seem to be at least one issue behind. Right now, I’ve still got…
View PostSadhu Binning’s No More Watnu Dur
I’ve just finished reading Sadhu Binning’s book of poetry, No More Watnu Dur (watno dur is Punjabi for “far away from the mother land”), written in memory of the Indian passengers (British subjects all) of…
View PostUn-common scents
Under “sentences that make you go ‘huh,’ ” read this passage from Chandler Burr’s explanation (in The Perfect Scent, which I also wrote about here) of how junior perfumers learn to put molecules together to…
View PostMore mysteries
Lee Child’s are not the only mysteries I’ve read lately. I’ve also worked my way through Stephen Booth’s The Dead Place, Quintin Jardine’s Autographs in the Rain, and Val McDermid’s Beneath the Bleeding, all of…
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