Eric's Hangout

I don't know if it is just a summer sickness (only slowly lifting) or having the weather play total havoc on my plans to finish the lowe...

This book (Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House) ended up being a completely different book than I expected.  It is a story about a mi...

That is to say that mid-summer is traditionally when the Man Booker Prize long list comes out.  The 2016 long list is here .  I have two mai...

I was going to go in a very different direction with this post, focusing more on how interesting it has been to read non-fiction books that ...

I kind of wanted this to sound like an Edgar Gorey story.  (Not sure I succeeded.) Anyway, a couple of weird things happened the last coup...

It was kind of a strange weekend.  Thurs, Friday and even Sat. were so hot that it was hard to get up too much enthusiasm to do anything, th...

Until yesterday, I had never been to the Toronto Islands.  I was supposed to go last year for a work picnic, but it was rained out.  Actuall...