FOR THE WEEK OF MAY, 2010 9-16 WHAT I’M READING: RAPT by Winifred Gallagher—a book which discusses the notion of attention. It’s more psychological/scientifically based than self-helpy…if you’re interested but slightly concerned that I might be wooing you into that territory! And I am preparing to re-read Zadie Smith’s ON BEAUTY partly because my mother [...]
For the week of March 21-27: WHAT I’M READING: My current obsession: cookbooks. Healthy delicious recipes that involve lentils, kale and more often than not, coconut milk. I need my own cooking show I think. Simon the scientist could talk about temperature or the equipment, and I could demonstrate the cooking in a white gown, [...]
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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 7-13, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony AND The Bible in French. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: Olivia. Remember how we made the shift to stories instead of those nasty learning books? The girl is so on board, laughing at all the right places. I love this kid’s sense [...]
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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: The Sedona Method, which is all about releasing feelings so you don’t have to carry around so much angst. Not that I carry around a lot of angst or anything…not me. Oh no. Never. Excuse me while I go release those lies. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: [...]
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 10-16, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: Chapters of The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, and The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. A very nice combination of easy to absorb brain science and light but not too light romance. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: She’s really into MY FIRST BOOK OF [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 6-12, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: My mother’s thesis. I’m all over Margaret Avison. Damn, can she string words together! (Yes, we are in the throws of PhD madness over at the Davey household; Simon expects to narrowly beat my mother to the finish.) God. God. Throwingness of PhDing over. Under. [...]
FOR THE WEEK OF November 8-14, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: Possession. Of course. I will always be reading Possession. To the end of the age. Possession. I am also throwing in excerpts from Flannery O’Connor’s letters, A Habit Of Being, as well as reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis. My reading cocktail needs a [...]
FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 18-24, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: The Possession saga continues. It’s a very long book, and like I have said repeatedly my attention span is short—a statement which irritates some mothers. Why degrade our kind with this ‘mommy brain’ talk? I say accept what is true. Our brains have slipped. There [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: Possession by A.S. Byatt. Still. (By the way, A.S. Byatt is a woman. Maybe you knew that.) It is a very good book. It is a very hard book. Maybe pre-baby, I had more brain to absorb such a hard book with so many big [...]
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WHAT I’M EATING: Deer steaks, strawberry ice cream made from real Ontario strawberries, and green olives before bed. WHAT I’M WATCHING: Six Feet Under, a series that has Simon and me completely hooked. Unfortunately (or fortunately) our grubby hands were unable to obtain all six seasons, otherwise we would have experienced our entire cottage excursion [...]
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