“I hate those ebooks. They cannot be the future. They may well be. . . I will be dead” – Maurice Sendak

OK, so I said in my last post that I couldn’t really get into Maurice Sendak books. Good thing Kristin of Briney Deep Designs set me (sort of) straight and directed me to Stephen Colbert’s hilarious two-part interview with Maurice Sendak, which aired in January. It will not be surprising that this interview is not [...]

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Wolf Hall, a second time

I have been rereading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, and I think I’m enjoying it even more a second time. I have to admit, there are aspects of the plot I am still not fully grasping, particularly the episode of the Holy Maid towards the end of the book. Instead, I have been paying more [...]

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I ate this book

Not really, but I did read it in less than two days, and it’s a fat book in more ways than one. It’s Spilling the Beans, by Clarissa Dickson Wright, who is best known for being the Fat Lady that is still alive. I have to admit that I am committing a cardinal sin of [...]

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