Sheesh, was I ever Buried In Print this past month: and March's stack looks, if possible, even more daunting (alternatively, on a brighter day, even more thrilling). I've updated my February reads to the 2010 Books Read List and am nearing the end of a couple of reads which herald
Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge I read Ray Smith’s Century (1986) for Canada Reads Independently, but I’m going to draw from previous Canada Reads’ Un-Independently lists for these comparisons: Century is like Aquin’s Next Episode, like Cohen’s Beautiful Losers. You see what I
Normally I make a point of reading short stories, even if just in the mags that I follow, but I haven't read a single one in February. Was I just that distracted by Elizabeth Smart and Ethel Wilson? Did I forget how much I enjoyed that Jennifer Egan story in
Dorothy West’s The Wedding VMC No. 431 (1995) I’ve been moving through time on Thursdays in Black History Month, from the mid-19th-Century in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative, through Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, through the 1950’s in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, and now to the Oval area
Kim Echlin's Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue on Women and Creativity (2004) When I included Elizabeth Smart on my list of reading for Women Unbound, I was sure that she belonged. Then, when I started into the reading in earnest, I wasn't sure; she seemed decidedly bound by her relationship with
