Fiercely Reading Indie: Seven Bookchats, In Brief

2021-05-21T19:05:58-04:00

Earlier this year, Karen and Lizzy hosted ReadIndies and it reminded me how many years had passed since an installment of my Fiercely Reading Indie project (the most extensive was my deep-dive into House of Anansi’s backlist). Maybe I’d slipped into devotedly reading from the Big Five, I wondered.

Fiercely Reading Indie: Seven Bookchats, In Brief2021-05-21T19:05:58-04:00

Carolyn Abraham’s The Juggler’s Children (2013)

2014-03-20T20:38:07-04:00

Less than a penny. That's how much it costs to read a single letter of DNA. Between 2000 and 2003, the cost fell from $1.50 to less than a single cent. "Suddenly DNA was mass-market." Random House Canada, 2013 Carolyn Abraham hadn't been saving her pennies for this

Carolyn Abraham’s The Juggler’s Children (2013)2014-03-20T20:38:07-04:00

BHM: Edwidge Danticat

2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer." So says Edwidge Danticat, in the early pages of the work inspired by Albert Camus' essay and, also, inspired by countless tales of courageous reading and writing and living.

BHM: Edwidge Danticat2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

Great Scott: It’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy

2018-04-18T17:45:18-04:00

Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy Knopf, 2010 "Useless! Completely kissmeass useless nowhereian." That's how Uncle Boysie describes Samuel's father. "Your father was a big inventor in Trinidad, you know...[b]ut the only thing he invent was a scheme to get out of the island." But talk of his father's neemakararam

Great Scott: It’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy2018-04-18T17:45:18-04:00
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