Monthly Archives: February 2014

February 2014 (See also January 2018) What a sweet dream location and physical plant. It’s a complex glass box directly on the English Bay beach looking onto the Georgia Strait sunset, at the busy summer tourist south end of Denman Street. There are three … Continue reading →

Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace (Penguin) New York. 1969. F; 2/14. Ms. Le Guin was interviewed in a recent Paris Review. Science fiction is not ordinarily a big interest of mine, but I was intrigued by … Continue reading →

Carrere, Emmanuel. The Adversary. Metropolitan (Henry Holt) New York. Original French 2000; Metropolitan translation (Linda Coverdale) 2000. Bio; Feb 2014. Mr. Carrere is said to be a runaway success as a fiction writer in French. This book is gripping as … Continue reading →

February 2014. We’ve been to this restaurant any number of times including its long-past former location on Thurlow Street. This was more of a bistro and, although it might be reflecting my relative youth when I was there, strikes me today … Continue reading →

Gigerenzer, Gerd. Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. Penguin, London, 2007. NF; 02/14. This interesting book for me illustrates something recursive about gut feelings, and I ended up with one of my own about the author’s approach to them. … Continue reading →

Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference. Continuum Bloomsbury, London 2003, first published 2002. NF; 01/14. This is a complicated, moving, and difficult book the ideas of which I find affirming. Consistent, I guess I mean, with what I imagine I’m … Continue reading →