Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest (1968) Illus. Louis Darling Readers first catch a glimpse of Ramona Quimby when she is very small, in the Henry Huggins series, but her first main appearance is in Beezus and Ramona. I was not, however, a Beezus fan. I was a Ramona fan. I
One of my favourite things about summertime as a kid was reading at a feverish pace. Unchecked by homework, school squabbles, or early-morning risings. By August, I was getting into the thick of it. I’d remembered how much fun reading was and the more that I did, the more that
Alongside a handful of shared/group reading challenges (here's my mid-year update on those), I'd chosen some themes to explore and I'd spotted some gaps in my reading. Short Stories 1. Sarah Selecky's This Cake is for the Party (2010) 2. Lynn Coady’s Play the Monster Blind (2000) 3. Mavis Gallant’s
Canadian Book Challenge 4 Final status, 52/13 I read about half of the 13 books recommended by Aritha van Herk, contemporary Canlit classics, and I’m glad I included this as part of the challenge because it kept me reading books that I wouldn’t have naturally taken reading time for. And
Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies HarperCollins, 2011 Did you know that there were Nazi concentration camps on British soil during the Second World War? I didn’t, but having read The Book of Lies, I now know. There were four of them actually. And it’s highly appropriate that Cat be
