I’ve never really set targets for my reading before, beyond a general expectation that I’d read at least a hundred books a year, but last year a friend pushed me to challenge myself to commit to 150. According to Goodreads I surpassed it, but according to my own count I read 135. I read twenty-seven graphic novels […]
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I found this review from May 2010 in my Drafts folder. It was whole and complete, but for some reason or another it remained unpublished. It’s a great book, so I thought I’d post it as is. Better late than never, right? As mentioned earlier, our book club pick for May was The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane
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Toronto’s often called a city of neighbourhoods. According to Wikipedia, there are more than 200 distinct neighbourhoods within its boundaries. One of my favourites is the Annex. I love it for its concentration of bookstores, coffee shops, sushi bars and cheap martinis on Wednesdays. My BFF and I started a little tradition (partly captured in “Au Natural”),
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I haven’t done well with updating the blog about the book club a friend and I started since the first meeting. A brief survey of what we’ve read since: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (we loved it), Robertson Davies’ The Rebel Angels (excellent), Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Summer Tree (well liked, but I felt it over-rated), Kurt
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My friend Jo and I both love to read. So do many of my other friends. We talk about books all the time, and thought it might be fun to (semi-)formalize this into a book club. Jo and I both feel left behind in the classics – there’s just too many of them, and only so much
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