This is another entry from the Kurt Wallander series, and it might be one of my favourites. It was complex and dark, with two simultaneous and very important plots going on at once. As with the other Swedish detective novels I have been reading, it also illustrated the changes happening in Sweden when it was …
Daily Archives: 26 March, 2008
Ticklish Baskets
The streets of Baghdad are a sign of how much the city has changed. Alex Limkin writes a letter to his deceased commanding officer. An etiquette squad is taking action in Tokyo to fight a tide of bad manners. Miss Manners would be proud. Elephant videographers have provided an amazing glimpse into the lives of …
In the Chair
One of the things they did during the “downtown revitalization” which involved ripping out half of Franklin Street was install crosswalks and sidewalks which are supposed to be more wheelchair friendly, along with textured material at street corners and driveways to alert the blind to changes in elevation (and the fact that they are about …