I pulled Down a Dark Hall off my shelf because it was in such poor shape that it stood out as having been re-read most frequently. But that wasn't an easy call: they all look pretty rough. When I got to high school, I entered the phase where I tried
When I put my mind to thinking of Canadian feminists whose books I wanted to explore in 2010, Margaret Atwood's name came to mind immediately. I was a teenager when I first read The Edible Woman and Life Before Man and Cat's Eye, a young woman heading to university with
It's still early, the winter morning that I begin reading Hetty Dorval, and the train is leaving the station hesitatingly, in the dark and snowless cold. I have my other book in my lap, my fun read, the sort of read that will be perfectly absorbing even after the bulk
Today is the last day that I'm going to spend writing about reading. If I don't actually start to turn some book-chat time into book-reading time, I'll be signing myself into book-therapy before the end of the month, a page-turning failure. But it's true that, even though I've mentioned a
When I first started making the list of books I’d like to read for this Challenge, I immediately began to list classic English and American texts (and not that that wouldn’t make for a fitting challenge, with the likes of Wollstonecraft and Pankhurst brushing up with Stanton and Lorde) but
