Eric's Hangout

I've known about Montaigne and his Essays for a long time but only recently have I gotten around to reading them.  It's quite likely...

I suppose virtually all novels start off as one big idea or another, but in at least some novels the characters are representing some specif...

I did say that I was going to cut down on memorial posts in the blog, though I decided to make an exception for Jackie Shane due to her stro...

I almost titled this Thinning the Herd, but that has a few too many connotations of a deliberate cull.  I've been to two recent TSO conc...

Reviewing Camilla Grudova The Doll's Alphabet is a challenge for me.  I found most of the stories to be well written, but they left a ve...

I had a chance to check out the Impressionist exhibition at the AGO.  It was a nice show.  I wasn't completely surprised that there wer...

While it isn't strictly necessary to have read Homer's Odyssey prior to reading Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad (as she provide...