Magnificent Octopus

We came out of our metro station this afternoon and saw the cremerie across the street lit up and open for business. So after supper, we too...

Yes! We're still reading Middlemarch ! Discussion of Book III is now underway. I have my ticket to see David Bezmozgis, Tim Parks, and J...

Oh, but there are growing pains! That is, a million little weird things about the girl, some of which greatly annoy me. Some of which are fu...

Today marks a rite of passage in our household. Helena and I were chatting this morning about getting out shopping today, and she suggested...

When I finally went to bed last night, I just lay there, my body clenched into a tiny ball of a fist against the cold air and J-F's slee...

1. Work deadlines are creeping up on me, preparing to bash me on the head from behind and leave me unconscious. 2. Sunday evening, the child...

Yesterday morning, while I was already at work at this very desk, J-F and Helena were driving downtown, to work and daycare. Helena taps J-F...

The 8th edition of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival takes place April 5–9, 2006. The programme is now availabl...

The King and I

which means discussion of Middlemarch , Book I, should be getting underway.

1. Friends! Even though we had to drive more than 2 hours to get there, and then back, and even though, if we're actually leaving the ho...

1. The way she says D is for Don Quixote, H is for "moi." 2. We go "see animals in the park." She ushers us into our bed...

Life : ...within a generation, biology will face its ultimate identity crisis. Researchers in the field of nanobiotechnology are racing to a...

Books into movies : And a not-so-funny thing happened. The books began to change the movies. (André Bazin argued that the Italian neorealist...

Henceforth I will not utter a word on Middlemarch here (unless I feel like it). All discussion will be confined to Reading Middlemarch (as...

I've been responsible for much of the dropping and collecting of the child at and from daycare recently. There have been developments in...

As mentioned , I'm about to embark on George Eliot's Middlemarch . Diana has already bravely agreed to accompany me on this journey...

David was a genius. I knew David from the university. He approached me casually one day, hoping to come up to speed on The Death of Ivan Ily...

Le grand spectacle Somehow, my weekend was perfect. (I even had time to read!) I'd been dreading it actually, knowing that J-F was to wo...

I never considered myself particularly maternally inclined, but here I am. I've been a mother for more than 3 years now. In some ways, t...