Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields Republic of Love

“Dear Life” Alice Munro

This the last of four stories published at the end of Dear Life under Finale, four works that are “not quite stories” but, rather, works “autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe they are the first and last — and the closest — things I have to say about my [...]

Fresh bookishness!

MAY 2013 Mostly things are back to BIP-as-usual soon. So many books to talk about!

In May, I am reading for Once Upon a Time (my list of possibilities is here, chat of my beginnings here, my readalong post for Neil Gaiman’s Stardust here), and I will begin my first read for the Global Women of Colour Challenge, (yes, I [...]