Anna Gavalda Je l'aimais Editions J'ai lu, 2002 Here's the list of words that I kept on a sticky-note in the front of this book because I'd looked them up in the dictionary more than once: ivre (drunk), nuque (nape of the neck), étouffer (to smother), frissoner (to shudder), placard (cupboard),
Appearing at the Appel salon in the Toronto Reference Library tonight, to a sold-out crowd, he spoke about his new novel, The Marriage Plot, his earlier works, and the writing life. (Spoiler-free, of course.) The Marriage Plot grew out of his own experiences at Brown in the 1980s (Madeleine, Leonard
You might remember that I've been sampling books from Indie presses that have been shortlisted for this year's ReLit Awards. Not just novels, but short stories, even poetry (which is adventurous for me). For a month of Sundays (at least), I'm Buried in ReLit Print. This Sunday is all about works that stretch
When I first posted about the read-a-thon last Saturday, this stack was hiding its spines. But here you can see all the tasty reads that I'm eyeing for this weekend. Yes, they are all somehow food-related. I haven't leafed through them yet (you know that can be the most savoury
Lynn Coady's The Antagonist House of Anansi, 2011 The protagonist in The Antagonist is Rank. Actually, Gordon Rankin. But he's insisted, since he was twelve years old, that his friends call him Rank. Now it occurs to him that he's been instructing people to call him stinky, but that's not
