Materfamilias Writes

Reading Mysteries

Reading Mysteries

Just a quick note: Back in the swing of term now, overwhelmed by reading I have to do, I can scarcely believe the phenomenon I experienced again over the holidays. I’m sure some of you…

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Reading, by Chance . . . Arriving at Edeet Ravel’s Look for Me

Reading, 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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Hallowe’en and abject horror

Hallowe’en and abject horror

I think this might be the first Hallowe’en ever that I have neither dressed up nor carved a pumpkin (above is last year’s) nor bought candy to hand out to cute little costumed-up people (rarely…

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