Monthly Archives: August 2025

August 2025 This renovated eatery replaced another in the main area of a Sechelt waterfront hotel which has also been renovated. The Sechelt waterfront is partly indigenous reservation but I believe this section is public. We were here for the … Continue reading →

Anderson, Scott. King of Kings. Doubleday, New York, 2025. NF; 8/25. The subtitle of this history of the Iranian revolution neatly sums its cautionary message up: “The Iranian revolution: a story of hubris, delusion, and catastrophic miscalculation.” It’s presumed that … Continue reading →

Lacey, Catherine. The Mobius Book. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2025. F; 8/25. This book is well beyond ordinary. I enjoyed it and found it serious and agreed with many of the abstract speculations. The mobius metaphor seems to … Continue reading →

August 2025. The name translates as “the barge” and the restaurant is on the upper floor of what was I think previously a gas and provisions float for boats. It’s open for dinner Thursday through Monday I believe only seasonally, … Continue reading →

Bellow, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. William Morrow, New York 1987. F;7/25. I decided to read this novel after reading Martin Amis’s apotheosis of Bellow. It’s Bellow’s 10th out of 14 or so novels and because I read The Adventures … Continue reading →