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

July 2016, In My Bookbag

2020-10-20T09:47:53-04:00

In which I discuss some of the skinny volumes, which have nestled into my bookbag. (Meanwhile longer works, like Timothy Findley's The Piano Man's Daughter and Greg Iles' Natchez Burning, were left at home.) Stephen Thomas' The Jokes is not funny-haha, but funny-hmmm. It's not meant to be funny-haha either, although many

July 2016, In My Bookbag2020-10-20T09:47:53-04:00

April 2016, In My Bookbag (Yoga)

2016-04-22T08:25:07-04:00

What are you carting to-and-fro these days? Are you slipping something skinny into your bag? Or has something big and bulky so claimed your reader's affections that you are content to lug it around? I tell myself that I would have a yoga practice already, if only I lived next

April 2016, In My Bookbag (Yoga)2016-04-22T08:25:07-04:00

November 2015, In My Bookbag

2015-11-06T15:32:34-05:00

Three of the books in my stack currently are heavy or over-sized (G.R..R. Martin: I'm looking at you), but there are several skinny options making an appearance in my bookbag this week. First, Michel Chikawanine's Child Soldier (written with Jessica Dee Humphreys and illustrated by Claudia Dávila); he begins by

November 2015, In My Bookbag2015-11-06T15:32:34-05:00

Summer 2015, In My Bookbag

2017-07-24T15:25:58-04:00

Tomorrow, I will be on the move. So many of the books currently occupying a position in my stacks are bulky and heavy, that it was easy to choose amongst the skinny residents. I have one more story to read in Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont. There are only three in

Summer 2015, In My Bookbag2017-07-24T15:25:58-04:00
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