Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge Katrina Onstad’s How Happy to Be (2006) As I’ve already mentioned, I didn’t find out about Canada Reads Independently until I’d already gotten myself thoroughly and completely Buried In Print for February; I can’t remember the
1949; New Canadian Library 1990 I don’t really need an answer to the question I’ve posed. I understand why Persephone would have chosen to print Hetty Dorval over The Innocent Traveller: Ethel Wilson’s first book is certainly a striking work and brings to mind other brilliant novellas (e.g.
The biggest of book-soaked thanks to A Guy's Moleskine Notebook for the blogging honour of The One Lovely Blog Award. He said: "Every once in a while a new commentator would leave very refreshing and thoughtful remarks in the blog. It’s almost like that revolutionary Apple computer commercial in 1984 in
Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine VMC No. 276 (1934) Two of Zora Neale Hurston’s published works are books of folklore and perhaps it was her background in anthropology that led her to recreate dialogue just as it was heard rather than consistently in “the King’s English”. It was a
Elizabeth Smart’s Autobiographies (1987) I vividly recall my first attempt at By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept; I read about one page and set it aside because I’d been looking for a quick read. Despite its slim form, Elizabeth Smart’s work is the sort that, for me,
