Before I left for Paris earlier this month, I had caught up my Reading Journal and meant to share photos of those pages with you. Didn't happen, so now I'm going to post two or three times before the end of the year. . . .
Continuing from where I left off,
Entry #62, Simon Armitage's Walking Home. I actually wrote more about this memoir over on Instagram than I jotted in my journal -- and unfortunately, in both spots it's rather faint praise. . . .
Entry #63, Tembi Locke. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home. (If you remember my most recent blog post -- oh, so long ago! -- you'll have noticed that Sicily is becoming a theme here).. . .a post on IG as well, if you'd like to see the book's cover.
64. Alice Zeniter, L'Art de Perdre (apparently to be published in English translation as The Art of Losing sometime in 2020 -- watch for it!) IG posts here and here. Won a number of Goncourt prizes in 2017, most notably the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
65. Steven Price, Lampedusa. (Yep, again with Sicily!!) . . . IG post here
66. Jill Ciment, The Body in Question IG post
67. Kate Di Camillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Read a recommendation of this somewhere in Social Media and borrowed it from the library to see if it might make a good gift. I think it could be good to read aloud to the Seven, not sure if her brother, Four, would follow well yet.
You'll have good reason to be skeptical, but I have high hopes of publishing another post tomorrow, and perhaps another after that so that I'm completely caught up by New Year's Eve -- and then I'll post my 2019 Reading List within the first few days of the new decade . . .
I'm sure some of you have been finding time to read now that the festivities have quietened to that wondrous lull we treasure this time of year. . . . What treasures did you pull out of your Christmas stockings or from under the tree? (Or did the library deliver for you this last week, as it did for me, a few books you've had on Hold for ages?). Time for one or two last book chats of 2019 -- leave a comment below, please, to get the conversation started.
Continuing from where I left off,
Entry #62, Simon Armitage's Walking Home. I actually wrote more about this memoir over on Instagram than I jotted in my journal -- and unfortunately, in both spots it's rather faint praise. . . .
Entry #63, Tembi Locke. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home. (If you remember my most recent blog post -- oh, so long ago! -- you'll have noticed that Sicily is becoming a theme here).. . .a post on IG as well, if you'd like to see the book's cover.
64. Alice Zeniter, L'Art de Perdre (apparently to be published in English translation as The Art of Losing sometime in 2020 -- watch for it!) IG posts here and here. Won a number of Goncourt prizes in 2017, most notably the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
65. Steven Price, Lampedusa. (Yep, again with Sicily!!) . . . IG post here
66. Jill Ciment, The Body in Question IG post
67. Kate Di Camillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Read a recommendation of this somewhere in Social Media and borrowed it from the library to see if it might make a good gift. I think it could be good to read aloud to the Seven, not sure if her brother, Four, would follow well yet.
I'm sure some of you have been finding time to read now that the festivities have quietened to that wondrous lull we treasure this time of year. . . . What treasures did you pull out of your Christmas stockings or from under the tree? (Or did the library deliver for you this last week, as it did for me, a few books you've had on Hold for ages?). Time for one or two last book chats of 2019 -- leave a comment below, please, to get the conversation started.