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
Clark Blaise's The Meagre Tarmac Biblioasis, 2011 The quote from Margaret Atwood on the back of this collection identifies Clark Blaise as a "master storyteller and border-crosser". This might refer to the national borders that the characters cross in the eleven stories in this collection. It might also refer to
Michael Christie's The Beggar's Garden Harper-Collins, 2011 Although the title for Michael Christie's story collection is drawn from the final story, it might well have been pulled from the second story's title, "Discard". It's at the heart of this debut collection: that which has been left behind, tossed out, put
So maybe I've been to another booksale. Maybe I have. I'm not saying that I have. I'm just saying maybe. And maybe, if I did. Maybe I bought something. If I had, I might have bought a children's book. It might have been a book that my mother read to
