Music critic, once described by a too-generous editor as a "Québec intellectual." Interests in addition to music include literature, the arts in general and the outdoors, particularly canoe tripping. The threshold of my golden years is but months away, yet I feel young and vigorous in spirit and imagination, even if some of the physical infirmities of age are leering at me increasingly.
Wed 17 Sep, 2003 07:06 pm - LaFarge was an American writer best known for his novel Laughing Boy, a love story with a social message set mostly in the Navajo nation about a hundred years ago. He also wrote The Enemy Gods and... (view)
Fri 12 Sep, 2003 06:08 am - Another aside: Years ago, I read an interview with the writer who had created the Kojak character on the television show. He described Kojak as a New-Yorkified Maigret and even went so far as to... (view)
Thu 11 Sep, 2003 05:02 pm - [quote="Roberta"]EF, Simenon slept with over a thousand women? Well, he was a long way from catching up to Wilt Chamberlain, but that's a lot of women.[/quote]
Never heard of... (view)
Thu 11 Sep, 2003 05:46 am - "Delicate" isn't the first word I would have thought of, but I guess it fits. I like their sense of compassion and their moral complexity. Speaking of moral complexity, in quite a... (view)
Wed 10 Sep, 2003 06:42 pm - I read them when I was learning French. Aside from a bit of slang, very obsolete these days, and a few specialized vocabulary items, they are very easy to read in French. I understand the standard... (view)
Mon 8 Sep, 2003 09:50 pm - Any Maigret fans out there? I've read the majority of the Maigrets, and find them very human and occasionally moving, qualities most police novels are a bit short of. (view)
Sun 7 Sep, 2003 02:21 pm - Don't waste your time. I was trying to be funny. Walk in the Woods is about as erotic as Microsoft's annual report to its shareholders. (view)
Sun 7 Sep, 2003 10:12 am - [quote="ehBeth"]a walk in the woods turns naughty.[/quote]
The untold story. The director's cut. Steamy tales of the world's longest footpath. (view)
