The Library of Congress
A year ago, I went to Washington DC for the Easter long week-end. As a book lover, I had no choice but to visit the Library of Congress, and I… Read More »The Library of Congress
A year ago, I went to Washington DC for the Easter long week-end. As a book lover, I had no choice but to visit the Library of Congress, and I… Read More »The Library of Congress
At the beginning of Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, Bridget has been going out with Mark Darcy for four weeks, and she is getting used to being part of… Read More »Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Congratulations to Joseph Boyden, the Canada Reads 2014 Winner for The Orenda! Canada Reads is an annual competition where 5 personalities defend their favorite book. The debates are broadcast on… Read More »Canada Reads 2014 Winner
In August 2008, The New Yorker published a true story by David Grann called “The Chameleon” about a twenty-year-old Frenchman, Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be a missing teen, Nicholas… Read More »Who I’m Not by Ted Staunton
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain –
In 1993, Piper Kerman had just graduated from college when she fell for the wrong girl: Nora was an older woman who was involved in an international drug smuggling ring.… Read More »Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
In October 2011, I had read an article in Vanity Fair that detailed how Jenny Phillips, the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins, Hemingway’s editor, orchestrated the rescue of documents stored in… Read More »Hemingway’s Documents Found in Cuba Have Been Digitized
In Hide and Seek, the second book in the Inspector Rebus series, a young man is discovered dead from an apparent overdose in a shady part of Edinburgh. John Rebus… Read More »Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
A few weeks ago, I was on vacation in Cuba, the very country Ernest Hemingway fell in love with. He started going there in 1932 because he loved fishing. He… Read More »Hemingway and Cuba