Kim Stafford’s Muses
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that I’m unable to manage writing about each book I read, as I’d hoped when I began this blog, and managed up until this year. The choice of stopping the blog,…
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Toni Morrison’s Home
So where was I? Ah, yes, I’ve managed to move my catch-up from First, to Second. . . and that only took me three weeks. Time to get to Third base here, and that’s the…
View PostLet the Great World Spin
The year’s almost done, and I have a huge stack of books I want to get to before the new term begins. The next few posts will be sad references to titles that deserve much…
View PostMen, Ageing, and Memory
I see that I began writing this post mid-to-late November. I ddn’t think I’d been away quite so long, but it’s been busy, as always . . . I’ve squeezed some worthy reading into my…
View PostLionel Shriver’s So Much for That
I thought that Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That might make a hat-trick, withthese other two titles, of books I couldn’t finish. The rants of one particular character — against office and government bureaucracies, against taxes,…
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