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• Une Joyeux Anniversaire

  

  We make it a tradition to celebrate our birthdays long and hard, my mother and I. Back to back days at the end of January, mine is today, and hers is... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

  

  Right from the beginning, Mrs. Copperfield describes Miss Goering has "gloriously unpredictable", and for me, those would be accurate adjectives applicable to... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert (or, Why I Liked Madame Bovary Much...

  

  The best thing about Madame Bovary is Emma Bovary. Foolish, deluded Emma, to be sure, but she is someone whose story creates a powerful impact, one that has... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mailbox Monday For January 18, 2016

  

  I'm excited about reading these books, especially the latest by Sebastian Faulks, Where My Heart Used to Beat: A sweeping drama about the madness of war and th... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Looking Ahead to 2016

  

  I'm not the sort of girl who plans her reading far in advance. In most things, I'm quite organized. Well prepared for life's eventualities. When it comes to... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Real Tigers by Mick Herron

  

  She'd heard once of a long-distance hiker, way before the days of e-readers, who'd carried a novel over the Alps, tearing out and discarding each page as he rea... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• If You Think This Is A Lot, You’re Wrong

  

  I just reached my hand into the top drawer of my dresser and grabbed what I could hold before I threw it on my desk to take a photograph. These seven lippies... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles. Won’t You Read Along with Us?

  

  Amongst all the titles listed in by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Two Serious Ladies is not one of them. And yet, in a discussion about Severina this July, Scott and I... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Year in Reading for 2015

  1. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante 2.The Secret Place by Tana French 3.The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber 4.The Sound of the Mountain by... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Good Tidings

  

  I received this card yesterday from an old blogging friend, one who never forgets me no matter how careless I am in sending forth good will. It is one of my... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Unexpected Surprise

  The closer you get to the operating room, the colder the temperature becomes. The more clinical the walls start looking, and the bigger the circumference of... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Emma by Jane Austen Read-along: Volume 2

  

  Tom pointed out earlier this week that Emma could be considered a mystery; it is in fact, termed as such by people who ought to know. Indeed there are... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Winners of Like Family by Paolo Giordano

  

  Viking has generously offered not one, but three copies for me to give away. After pulling names from those who have expressed an interest, we have: Shoreacres... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Emma by Jane Austen Read-along: Volume 1

  

  I shall begin a post on Jane Austen's Emma with a quote from Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream, for if Jane herself included it in Volume 1, it must be... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Like Family by Paolo Giordano (and Give-away)

  

  Each of us was fabricating a small, personal consolation. There is nothing more we can do when faced with someone's death except devise some extenuating... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Japanese Literature Challenge 9)

  

  I wanted to experience every aspect of the gun thoroughly, and to abandon the firing of it that now loomed before me would mean there would be nothing left to d... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Emma Read-along This December: A Few Guidelines

  

  The idea of reading Jane Austen's Emma this December has grown from a few friends I have blogged with, to many I've just been introduced to for the first time.... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Heidi by Johanna Spyri for German Literature Month (A Guest Post by My Mother)

  

  Today I picked up a worn old book that I read 73 years ago. Yes, I was seven. My namesake aunt had gifted it to me for Christmas. Because it held a great... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Slade House by David Mitchell

  

  Dad puts his arm around Joy's waist. "Try the coffee first. It'll make a man of you." I lift the mug and peer down. Inside's black as oil, as holes in space,... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell

  

  You know that the narrator, Fredrik Welin, lives alone on an icy, remote island in Sweden where the only person he sees with any regularity is Jansson, the... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE