Monthly Archives: November 2014

November 2014. On paper this place looks to be an absolute dead ringer that can’t possibly fail. It is a breathtakingly authentic Parisian bistro, smack in the middle of highest-traffic Kitsilano 4th Avenue, and very well reviewed in a recent … Continue reading →

Appelfeld, Aharon. Suddenly, Love. Schocken, New York 2014 (translated from original Hebrew 2003 by Jeffrey Green). Presume Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 11/14. This is another book suggested to me through reading the author interviews in Paris Review. Appelfeld … Continue reading →

What an awful-sounding idea. It gives me the same feeling I might get from intellectual cuisine or virtual music. But in spite of that it works for me although it does get me into certain problems. I’m not sure what … Continue reading →

Ferris, Joshua. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Little, Brown, New York. 2014. Presume Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 11/14. I made some pretty inspired notes on this unusual and occasionally quite moving book, but except for a … Continue reading →

November 2014 I’ve walked past the front of this place many dozens of times, and it being right on the way to one of my favorite bakeries. For some reason (I think someone must have praised it) I’ve always peered in … Continue reading →

Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Knopf, New York 2013. Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F; 11/14. This prize-winner is a classic tale of endurance in the style of Holocaust stories, or The War of the End … Continue reading →

Nabokov, Vladimir. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Vintage, New York, 1995-1997. Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F;10/14. I read about two thirds of these (there are 67, over 600 pages). In an American fiction course of a hundred years ago, … Continue reading →

John Le Carre. A Most Wanted Man. Penguin paper Toronto 2014 (first published 2008). F; 10/14. I forgot my Kindle leaving for a 2 1/2 week trip, so had desperately to turn the vacant Hudson News shops in YVR upside down for … Continue reading →

October 2014. This self-important very traditional restaurant came highly recommended after I failed to be thrilled by steakhouses in Chicago which was supposed to be the beef capital of the universe. My brother-in-law said I wouldn’t believe the atmosphere. You … Continue reading →

November 2014 This is a wonderful town, full of interesting places to visit and right on the ocean. We explored the waterfront which is said to be classy but turned out to consist of shoddy tourist-oriented malls and over-priced restaurants. In … Continue reading →