Holidays at Home
A five-day staycation at home turns into breakfast in Paris, a Latin Quarter bookshop crawl, and eight new books eating into my reading pile.
Books
Reading-In-Progress (RIP) Books
A tour of my bedside stack of RIP (reading-in-progress) books, topped by an 8-inch pile of half-finished classics and contemporary reads—and a confession about why the pile never seems to…
Favourite Crime Fiction Author
Pierre Lemaitre is my favourite crime fiction author, a Prix Goncourt winner whose gripping novels and unforgettable Commissaire Camille Verhœven kept me hooked, even in French.
Word of the Day: TSUNDOKU
I've just added two more books to my ever-growing 'to-read' pile — and that's not counting the ones mid-read, or waiting on my Kindle. As it turns out, there's a…
Summer Reads
Three books, one summer, and a serious case of reading ambition — from Dumas in the original French to Bill Bryson's science romp and a deep dive into Tour de…