Monthly Archives: August 2014

August 2014. A friend who lives in the neighborhood took me to this new Main Street bistro, describing the chef Herve Martin as having great credentials. He certainly seems to have been in the right places, the website mentioning two … Continue reading →

The Quick and the Dead. Joy Williams. Vintage, New York, 2000. Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 8/14. Another book I found reading the author’s interview in The Paris Review (number 209). Pictures of Joy Williams show a nice-looking woman … Continue reading →

We Need New Names. NoViolet Bulawayo. Little, Brown and Co., New York 2013. Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 7/14. I have quite strong mixed feelings about this one. It was another among several novels I’ve read recently where I … Continue reading →

The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Jonas Jonassen. English translation Rod Bradbury. HarperCollins Toronto (first English translation) 2012 (original Swedish 2009). Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 7/14. I’m not sure exactly what kind of a … Continue reading →