Sarah Selecky’s This Cake is for the Party Thomas Allen, 2010 A lot of readers think of short stories like the crumbs on the cover image of Sarah Selecky’s stories: short stories are what’s left behind when a writer couldn’t make something whole out of an idea, couldn’t serve it
Having felt bookishly starved in 2009 and rather over-stuffed in 2010, it's taken me some time to plan the menu for my 2011 reading year. Then, this past week, I tested the seasoning, to see if this blend of eleven ingredients will be the perfect sort of bookishness that I’ve
First time favourites that you might be sick of hearing me rave about*: Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005) Trans. Lazer Lederhendler, French (2008) Michael Crummey's Galore (2009) Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (2008) Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009) Cynthia Flood’s The English Stories (2009) *These
To understand my 2010 reading year, I have to think back to 2009. I'd started feeling driven to read; it had taken on the air of a chore rather than a pleasure. And so I declared 2009 "The Year of Reading Fun-gerously". In 2009, I set aside my reading lists.
I started thinking about December's reads in November. Do you "read ahead of yourself" sometimes too? But I knew there were books that I wanted to finish in 2010, so I cleared the proverbial decks to focus on those. Sometimes I just get tired of looking at the same books
