materfamilias reads

Four grown kids (and their wonderful partners), six delightful grandchildren, constant, long-time partner. A retired academic, I've recently moved with my husband from a waterfront home on a very small (Canadian) West Coast island to a condo in the city (Vancouver). Still reading compulsively, though, and keen to discover what new priorities emerge, what interests persist in this urban life after 60!

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Announcement: We're Moving!

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Hello, In January, I committed to maintaining Materfamilias Reads separately from Materfamilias Writes, until at least the end of 2021.  But...
Monday, May 17, 2021

A Few Good Books I Read Last Month . . .

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 Another good reading month, was April.  It seems that no amount of busy-ness (Italian classes, fitness workouts, family life, knitting and ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

March-ing through my Reading Journal: A Month's Worth of Books

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 March Reading: 17. Siberian Haiku   Jurge Vile; Illustrator, Lina Itagaki; Translator, Jura Avizienis. Graphic novel; Autofiction; historic...
Monday, March 8, 2021

February, Books Read: Mysteries, Non-Fiction, French Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction in Translation. . . . All the Books!

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 Whew! That's a title, eh? I figured you might be wearying of "November Books Read, Books Read in December, January Books Read, etc...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

And The Year's Reading Began Well: January Books

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And so it begins. . . A new Reading Journal for 2021, a small notebook received at a Creative Mornings event, back when those were still in ...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

2020 Reading List (subtitle: The Year Redeemed Itself, just a bit. . . .)

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2020 will be remembered by most of us as a year of many challenges, but primarily as The Year of Covid-19, of lockdowns, of physical distanc...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

And there was reading in December. . . .

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First of all, Happy New Year to all of you! I am so grateful to you for reading and commenting here, and I'm looking forward to another ...
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