Thomas Wharton’s Icefields (1995)

2014-03-13T20:55:15-04:00

Thomas Wharton's Icefields (1995) Readers will recognize quickly whether there is a match to be made between them and Thomas Wharton's first novel. Ten pages should do it. First, there is the epigraph, from Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter: "As if everything in the world is the history of ice."

Thomas Wharton’s Icefields (1995)2014-03-13T20:55:15-04:00

Louise Penny: Gamache Two and Three

2014-03-13T20:51:24-04:00

Louise Penny's Dead Cold (2006) Louise Penny's The Cruellest Month(2007) I plunged into Louise Penny's Gamache mysteries last October with the first in her series, Still Life. When I found books two and three nestled together on the library's paperback mysteries shelf, earlier this summer, I felt like someone was

Louise Penny: Gamache Two and Three2014-03-13T20:51:24-04:00

A New Heroine

2014-03-13T20:31:58-04:00

Doris McCarthy’s Ninety Years Wise Second Story Press, 2004 This is another book that I discovered thanks to Shelagh Rogers’ The Next Chapter. You know how sometimes you hear a name so many times and you keep meaning to investigate and then, suddenly, something happens and it shifts from a

A New Heroine2014-03-13T20:31:58-04:00

BIP’s Snips: Stories

2014-03-13T20:29:50-04:00

Gordon j.h. Leeanders’ To Be Continued ECW Press, 2005 Read: Sitting at freshly-assembled dining-room table. Now we can seat 8 for a meal. Or one reader and one story collection. (It was a two-course read for me.) Warning: Even if you usually spread short story collections over time, you’ll be

BIP’s Snips: Stories2014-03-13T20:29:50-04:00

Two Jane Urquhart Novels

2014-07-02T12:12:43-04:00

Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool (1986) McClelland & Stewart, 1997 In an early edition of Jane Urquhart’s debut novel, she credits a 1915 novel for having inspired her story: Julia E. Cruikshank’s Whirlpool Heights: The Dream-House on the Niagara River. It’s difficult to find a copy of Whirlpool Heights but, because

Two Jane Urquhart Novels2014-07-02T12:12:43-04:00
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