My April books got me through the weeks of travel prep (and pre-travel anxiety) and through long flights and train journeys. Mysteries, memoirs, literary fiction, romance, and armchair travel — it’s all here! Click through to read more and join the book chat.
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Thinking back to the years when the biggest challenge to carry-on-only travel was how to fit enough books into our cases, I am ever so appreciative of e-books, especially since I now borrow them so…
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I know, I know . . . But just popping my head in to say that if you followed my earlier suggestions to read John Farrow’s wonderful Emile Cinq-Mars’ mysteries, mostly set in Montreal, you…
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Sometimes I just want my reading to be entertaining and well-written, not necessarily light, but defnnitely lighter than Karl Ove Knaussgard’s struggles…. After this last weekend, all I wanted to do was pull the covers…
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I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…
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