John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
Kelley Armstrong's Haunted Seal Books, 2005 It begins with Bitten, first published in hardcover in 2001, and is projected to have thirteen books in total, the eleventh having recently been released, Tales of the Otherworld. Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series has taken hold in unexpected and dramatic ways and I am
I took some courses in university in Japanese History and read a fair number of novels then, but, since, I have read Japanese authors spottily. One particular favourite, however, is Banana Yoshimoto and I still have one of her works to look forward to: Hardboiled and Hard Luck Trans. from
A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend an event which included three novelists from Africa: Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe), Carole Enahoro (Nigeria) and Ngūgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya). They focussed on the following works, respectively: Harare North, Doing Dangerously Well, and Dreams in a Time of War. And, so,
As I have finished my last read for the Canadian Reading Challenge 3, my reading thoughts have turned to Canlit to read for the coming year. I've been long thinking of Hugh Hood's New Age Cycle, a 12-volume novel sequence that was apparently inspired by the novel sequences of Proust
