Unsurprisingly, “Some Women” offers readers a panoply of images of womanhood. It begins by hearkening back to an earlier time, when “girls wore waist cinches and crinolines that could stand up by themselves”. But then locates the narrator as being so old that even she is amazed by the number
Maybe if I had heard of Reeder Reads' Green Gables Read-a-long straight off, I'd've reread more diligently but, as it was, I learned of it at the end of February; at first I just dabbled in the rereading and I only got serious about proper cover-to-cover reading at the end of
"You think that would have changed things?" "The answer is of course, and for a while, and never." In interview with Eleanor Wachtel, Nick Hornby discusses the "problem of being divided being two worlds" saying that many of us have a version of this in our own lives. This is true
I am a moody reader. That's why I usually have a dozen books on-the-go. The book-I-can-hardly-stop-reading on one day might become the-most-neglected-in-the-stack on the next day. This summer has brought a super-satisfying variety of books onto my stacks. All week, I've been chatting about some of the stand-out titles I've
Such good reading this summer, so far. In other respects, perhaps mine has not been the most productive summer. But it all depends what one puts on a to-do list, doesn't it! What if your to-do list was all about the books in your stacks? House of Anansi, 2015
