Alice Munro!!! It was announced yesterday, that the National Canadian treasure, that is Alice Munro, was the winner of the biggest prize in, literature. Greeted with joy and applause, by those assembled to cover the announcement. The Nobel commitee, described Mrs Munro, as a ‘master of the contemporary story’ at 82, the great Alice is,… Continue reading The Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature is…
Category: Book Love
Not reviews or appreciations. A categorie where I discuss my love of reading or of books.
Job search and Crane
Hello girls, how’ve you been? I’m good, thanks for asking 🙂 I’ve started applying for jobs, as I mentioned, in an earlier post, and, this morning I had my first telephone interview. I didn’t have time to be nervous, I didn’t know it was coming. I think it went well, but, since, I spend my… Continue reading Job search and Crane
…and reading:-)
It has been, really mild, here, this week, lots of people are complaining, it’s too cool, probably the same ones who, will be bitching about, the heat and humidity, soon, whatever, I’m enjoying the nice mild, Spring 🙂 I have added, reading, to the sitting and thinking, jiggie. I am reading this marvelous book, an… Continue reading …and reading:-)
A butch and her khakis??
We’ve been having some, rainy weather, but, the rest of the week’s, weather forecast is hot, rain and hot, tomorrow, hot and hot, Thursday, hotter and humid, Friday, and, Saturday, sigh I loathe, hot and humid, but, ready or not, here, it comes. The Spring has been, rainy, and, cool, and, although, sun, is nice,… Continue reading A butch and her khakis??
Ramble, Ramble, Ramble
Another, grey one, ah, early Winter, a time of, grey. I’ve finished Pat Barker’s, Regeneration, a powerful novel, about what war does to man. I recommend this book, not preachy, not macabre, a mature book, with flawed, contradictory, characters, living breathing people. A plot synopsis, would give too much away, I think. Besides, it isn’t… Continue reading Ramble, Ramble, Ramble
Maternal wisdom…
Been a slow, beginning of the week, at the bookshop, I’ve managed to finish two books. I’ve started and finished, Utz by Bruce Chatwin, a novel about a collector, of Meissen porcelain, in Czechoslovakia, during the communist reign. An odd, short and engrossing, novel. Chatwin is much more, famous, for his travel and anthropological books,… Continue reading Maternal wisdom…
Poets, love, I guess that’s been on my mind:-)
Grey day out there, drizzly, damp, grey, kind of, yeah, I’ll say it, yucky 🙂 Been a hard week, but, that’s over now, time to focus, on positive things, and, hang with positive people. Going to have dinner, with my ex, tonight, good nutritious food, stimulating conversation, maybe watch a movie. I told her I… Continue reading Poets, love, I guess that’s been on my mind:-)
When I grow up….
It’s a grey cloudy morning, of the October variety. I don’t mind, I feel good, my friend Pierre, webmaster extraordinaire, fixed the pesky problem, with the blog, just to be clear, you all were never in danger, of contamination, it was a Google alert brought on, by a spam, left on the blog, incredible amount… Continue reading When I grow up….
A book of substance and joy, Persistence
Well, looks like, Fall, is finally here, glad to see it, I’ve missed it, in the sweltering heat, the humid, clingy, heat. I even wore, my tweed cap, yesterday:-) This Summer, has been particularly, difficult on my reading, can’t concentrate in, the sizzling city. Now, if I had escaped, to the sea, or, the lake,… Continue reading A book of substance and joy, Persistence
A Kallmaker to soothe the grumpy butch
It’s been a tough week, seems like there have been, many of those, this Summer, hot and humid, makes for low sales, and, a grumpy, sleep deprived, butch, with wonky concentration. But, I still got my looks and a rockin’ new haircut:-P The kitchen is getting a face lift, new doors, on the cabinets, and, a… Continue reading A Kallmaker to soothe the grumpy butch