Tag: reading
January 1, 2021 /

Bye-bye 2020!

I’m not going to enter into the year that was conversation. I think it’s too early. I will say one thing that kept me going this year was being able to read to you in a podcast. In my isolation it was one way I could contribute, if only to…

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December 6, 2020 /

Old gal reads own novel online!

Hi everybody, Some of my friends and readers have been asking me, “What gives?” Especially in regard to the blog, which is a direct result of the pandemic. I explain all in the video here and I would like to add by recording this book I had a blast. I…

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June 6, 2018 /

Dear one, what are you reading?

I found a copy of Paraic O’Donnell‘s “The Maker of Swans” while I was in Seattle, it seems the perfect thing to distract me from the news this evening and take me into some kind of sorcery, that I’m more than intrigued by, and have no clear concept of, as…

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December 11, 2014 /

Reprise: I have a Pavlovian response, and when I’m feeling peaked I have to go to Palm Springs

September 23, 2014 /

Read any good books lately? Greta Garbo

July 31, 2014 /

While we’re talking about bedrooms – let’s invite the crew

July 31, 2014 /

Pajamas? Make mine Marabou!

May 27, 2014 /

Welcome to my boudoir, an update — and click on either of the pix to buy the novel…

February 17, 2014 /

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. Abraham Lincoln

January 26, 2014 /

A favorite character, Lord Jim, psychologically suspect: Chang-rae Lee: By the Book – NYTimes.com