In a year with some extended reading projects and some very long novels, it’s been a treat to have some shorter (and, sometimes, simpler) stories like these, in the stacks. Come November (just a few days away), you might be looking to add some novellas like these to your
So, if you’re keeping track of my travels in women’s writing in the 17th and 18th centuries, we have had Rebecca Romney writing about them in Jane Austen’s Bookshelf and Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel, as well as Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688) and Delarivier Manley’s The Adventures
In ranking from least scary and spooky to most, here are some stories that suit the dusk-comes-early evenings we’ve been having, with cooler temperatures and a whole lot of damp. First, Cherie Dimaline’s Funeral Songs for Dying Girls (2023), which includes glimpses of nighttime tours
Soon after this season’s year was announced, finding nothing published in 1949 in the local library, I logged onto the Internet Archive and, at first, found only a few options. One of them was an exhibition catalogue of Palestinian artifacts held in Toronto that year, which included a compact
If you’re reading this, you probably know what I’m going to say: it’s nearly time! Time to make your MARM selection to read this November! Time to gather the ingredients for the cake recipe you’re planning to enjoy on November 18th (her 87th)! Time to pull your handmaid’s bonnet
