By Colm Toibin, 2014 I bought this book at Audrey’s just before Colm Toibin was in Edmonton for the Festival of Ideas in November 2014 and read it only recently. The novel begins quietly and builds to a crescendo. It is the moving story of a middle-aged widow living through the grief and shock of […]
A Book Woman Travels
Some people shop for clothes or shoes when they travel. I mostly shop for books. They have become the focus of any trip, partly so I can find books I never see at home and partly to enjoy and to celebrate the remaining bricks and mortar book stores. On trips to Asia I pack my […]