More apocalypse, less angst
Just in case you are following along the house in Gibsons saga – subjects were removed last night by the original buyers six hours before the deadline and my duplex is now officially sold. Yes! Official transfer of possession happens February 28th, and before… Continue Reading “Rambling about reading.”
It really has been ages since I’ve done a book review on here so I’m back with more two sentence reviews for my fall reads. Thank goodness for WeBook which helps me at least keep track of what I’ve read or I’d have completely… Continue Reading “Bookish: More two-sentence reviews.”
Well, it seems as though the rains have come in for the winter – judging by the torrential downpour outside my window at the moment – but thank goodness our good weather held through Sunday and Word on the Street which had another successfully… Continue Reading “Bookish: As form, as social occasion”
I’ve been reading Tess of the D’Urbervilles outloud to Brian this summer (his cataracts make it impossible to read in the sunlight) as it happened to be on my “classics to read before I die list”. We’re getting pretty close to the end of… Continue Reading “Bookish: Tess of the Baskervilles”
Before I went on holidays I finished this Aleksander Hemon novel and was charged to discover that this novel (released last year) lives up to the promise of Hemon’s short fiction. Unlike Nowhere Man, his first “novel”, The Lazarus Project holds throughout with a… Continue Reading “Bookish: The Lazarus Project”