2015 September

Late-Summer Reading: When and Where

Buried In Print2017-07-20T17:34:26-04:00

For the past couple of weeks, I have been listening to Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce on my daily walks. I was walking in full summer, listening to descriptions of winter in Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. The clusters of cloud in the story were from the exhaust of snowmobiles in

Late-Summer Reading: When and WhereBuried In Print2017-07-20T17:34:26-04:00

Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise (1993)

Buried In Print2015-09-02T13:07:21-04:00

This isn't necessarily a story that you will know. Penguin Books, 1993 And nor are you expected to. "We all know how history comes down to us, which stories, which versions tend to be passed on." But here, in Free Enterprise, in a novel, we might find another

Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise (1993)Buried In Print2015-09-02T13:07:21-04:00

On Reading Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (2015)

Buried In Print2015-09-01T15:19:16-04:00

Beginning: Was it like this before? A slow start, a growing realization that these characters are not trying to be likeable, only to be believable? Doubleday Canada, 2015 Pip (short for Purity) seems rather like a middle-aged woman in a young woman's skin, so many worries and an overwhelming sense

On Reading Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (2015)Buried In Print2015-09-01T15:19:16-04:00