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• Vacation Reading

  

  I am going on vacation (again) and here’s what books I’ve loaded onto my e-reader: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco The Wave by Todd Strasser Snow by Orhan Pamuk Silent House by Orhan Pamuk The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch Taipei by Tao Lin Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays by Stephen Hawking […]

• Barcelona Book Tour

  I am recently back from a holiday, partially in Barcelona and partially on a cruise. As when I was in London, I spent some of my time checking out the bookshops Barcelona has to offer.  I started at Hibernian, which claims to be the only secondhand English bookshop in Barcelona. The place is large – […]

• London Book Tour

  I intended to post this much sooner but life has a way of forcibly adjusting plans. It has been so long that I had to go back through my bank account to see where I had actually been. Thankfully, I purchased a book at all but one stop so I left myself a sufficient paper […]

• Cruise Ship Books

  I recently went on a cruise.  Friends of mine got married on a ten-day Mediterranean cruise. Not sure I’ll be doing another cruise, but the ceremony was lovely and it was good to catch up with folks I haven’t seen since pre-Covid.  I, of course, spent lots of time laying by the pool (in the […]

• Prize Winners

  Because I love a good reading goal and a good spreadsheet AND I love being an over-achiever, I’ve set myself a wild goal to read all of the winners (and, in some cases, shortlists) of a number of literary prizes. I started with the Nobel, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer and the Hugo but somehow […]