"For a statistician, he's a dreamer. He has green eyes that make him look like a number theorist, even though he has long hair like...

Refinishing the dining room table For ages, Len has been saying he wants to strip and re-stain and polyurethane the dining room table. Sandi...

Deb at Readerbuzz  recently wrote a post about books that should be read on a trip to Paris. She said: “The book you bring with you might b...

It’s reported that Alfred Hitchcock once telephoned Simenon only to be told that he was incommunicado as he had just begun a new novel. ...

We navigated our kayak upstream through the water lily patches. A small motorboat was in the process of marking the lanes for a crew-rowing ...

      Continuing with my brief exploration of the life and work of French author Georges Perec (1936-1982), I have been reading  Tentative d...

Rain brought mushrooms to our backyard. We started a walk along the river, and saw a squirrel with an unusual white tail. We had not walked ...

My reading project this week is the works and life of the French writer Georges Perec (1936-1982). Reading about him is fun for me because I...

Who was Georges Perec? He was a very talented and accomplished French writer, born in 1936. He published many books between 1965 and his dea...