Desmond Pacey's Ethel Wilson (1967) After finishing the delightful novel, The Innocent Traveller, I found myself wanting to know a little more about the woman who penned it. And, as some of you out there have also been bitten by the Ethel Wilson bug, I'll share some bits and pieces
Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah (1975) When my copy of Z for Zachariah came through on library loan, I was a bit disappointed: it was a relatively new paperback and the cover wasn't anywhere near as disturbing as I remember the cover of the edition that I read as
Some of you may recall my debating over which book to read for Freedom to Read week, but the question was settled for me when I came upon an entry in Elizabeth Smart's Journals (which I was reading for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge). On July 26, 1933 she records the
Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a
When I re-subscribed to Brick Magazine earlier this year, a pull-down menu asked how I had heard about their publication. I sat and thought about it but finally filled the field with this: I feel as though I've always known about Brick. But, when I revisit my magazine files (carefully
