I took some courses in university in Japanese History and read a fair number of novels then, but, since, I have read Japanese authors spottily. One particular favourite, however, is Banana Yoshimoto and I still have one of her works to look forward to: Hardboiled and Hard Luck Trans. from
A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend an event which included three novelists from Africa: Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe), Carole Enahoro (Nigeria) and Ngūgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya). They focussed on the following works, respectively: Harare North, Doing Dangerously Well, and Dreams in a Time of War. And, so,
As I have finished my last read for the Canadian Reading Challenge 3, my reading thoughts have turned to Canlit to read for the coming year. I've been long thinking of Hugh Hood's New Age Cycle, a 12-volume novel sequence that was apparently inspired by the novel sequences of Proust
Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms Warner, 2003 Last Sunday I mentioned Nalo Hopkinson's 2003 novel, The Salt Roads; today I've got her 2007 novel The New Moon's Arms on the book-brain. I finished reading it on the front porch on an exceptionally lovely summer afternoon, the sort which is
P.K. Page's The Old Woman and the Hen Illus. Jim Westergard The Porcupine's Quill, 2009 I wasn't planning to include a Once Upon a Time read for this Saturday. I thought last Saturday's Silverwing would have been my last. And what a fine final read that turned out to be.
