Margaret Millar’s An Air that Kills (1957; 2016)

2017-02-24T17:02:31-05:00

Because so many of Margaret Millar's novels consider married couples - often at the point in which the relationship is strained, if not fractured - one wonders about her relationship with Ken Millar (better known as Ross MacDonald, who also wrote mysteries). Did they squabble like Esther and Ron do

Margaret Millar’s An Air that Kills (1957; 2016)2017-02-24T17:02:31-05:00

Winter 2017, In My Bookbag

2018-01-17T15:36:01-05:00

My reading year began with Marina Endicott's New Year's Eve (2011), written with literacy front-of-mind; its vocabulary, structure and tone are meant to ease the passage for readers with varying degrees of ease reading in English. It begins simply: "The snow started before we left home." Despite its brevity ,

Winter 2017, In My Bookbag2018-01-17T15:36:01-05:00

Mavis Gallant’s “The Other Paris” (1956)

2019-08-02T18:18:45-04:00

There is, about an hour's drive from Toronto, a small town called Paris, on the Grand River. I've visited it a couple of times and I have travelled through it, by train, countless times. Rarely, on one of those rail journeys, did I miss that broad curve of the tracks, the

Mavis Gallant’s “The Other Paris” (1956)2019-08-02T18:18:45-04:00

Margaret Millar’s A Beast in View (1955; 2016)

2017-02-24T17:01:29-05:00

She won the Edgar for it in 1956: Best Novel. (If you are looking for new reading lists, the Edgar Award's site is filled with temptations.) And it was the first of three, later awards being given for The Fiend in 1965 and Beyond This Point Are Monsters in 1971. (She would

Margaret Millar’s A Beast in View (1955; 2016)2017-02-24T17:01:29-05:00

March 2017, In My Stacks

2018-07-11T14:56:40-04:00

February was a relatively light reading month for me, so there are some nearly-done books in the stack at the beginning of this month, along with new additions. Naomi Novik's Black Powder War, N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of the Gods, Baratunde Thurston's How to be Black and the Margaret Millar

March 2017, In My Stacks2018-07-11T14:56:40-04:00
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