This is the first Reading Post in many years that I’ve published for the first (and only) time right on my main (now my only) blog. Past experience has shown me that many of you…
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My November reading didn’t begin as auspiciously as did recent months’, but it was full of gems nonetheless. Here’s the list: — Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim (international political thriller) — Elif Batuman’s The Idiot (literary fiction;…
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Wow! Not sure how those five weeks got away from me, but I’m back, with a sextet of titles to share. 1. Lee Child’s Blue Moon, the latest Jack Reacher. Not sure why I enjoy…
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I’d make my apologies for the lapse since last posting, but by now, this is what you’ve come to expect here. My mother used to insist that an apology was only as good as the…
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I won’t say you can’t possibly understand how I felt when my mother arrived for a three-day stay here without a book to read. But you, of course, weren’t there each afternoon all those decades…
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