Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

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The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford is stunning in terms of prose and story in...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

American Audacity

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American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring by William Giraldi My rating: 5 of 5 stars Smart, opinionated, I must add this book to ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

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Hot Milk by Deborah Levy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hot Milk is a wild ride. Sometimes the richness of her writing is almost too much, lik...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Review of The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez My rating: 5 of 5 stars My kind of book, Sigrid Nunez writes fondly of dogs, more critically of writing and w...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

A Hundred Packets of Seed while a Real Writer Muses (annuals, flowers, wriiting, James Fenton, 750words.com)

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With thanks to Vonetta Young https://brevity.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/you-are-not-a-real-writer/ A real writer sits at a clean, tidy desk ...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

I'm told some people like to read about day-to-day lives...

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Arising around nine in the morning as befits a retiree, I went out to the kitchen to foam the milk for my first latte. I drink two each day...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Cookbooks again

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Up at a reasonable hour to make a latte, then climbed back under the covers to read A Tuner of Silences, the book club novel about a kid in...