Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here Random House, 1986 The Women Unbound Reading Challenge was the perfect excuse that I needed to fill the gap in my Dionne Brand reading with her first novel In Another Place, Not Here. I bought my copy on the weekend (I loaned out
Kathryn Stockett's The Help Penguin, 2009 I don't listen to a lot of audiobooks; it's not that I have a philosophical stance against them, I'm just old-fashioned, so the first inclination is to pick up the book. But what I do quite enjoy is having both options, so that if
Elizabeth Waterston's The Magic Island Oxford University Press, 2008 I've been reading this book for months. You could actually say 'years'. Which is pretty funny actually because I bought it immediately upon publication...in 2008. But its format got me hooked in a rather unusual way and in some ways I
Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear Bantam Books, 1980 I had started high school when I read Jean Auel's first novel in the Earth's Children series, but I don't know if it was the 9th grade or the 13th. It was my grandmother's copy -- she bought a
The magazines I've chatted about here so far have been exclusively bookish; I think "The Walrus" is perfectly bookish, but it's also a magazine subscription that I can send to my father, who only reads "Time" and "Macleans". So it's a ::cough:: serious magazine, that's also serious about fiction. But
