Soon after this season’s year was announced, finding nothing published in 1949 in the local library, I logged onto the Internet Archive and, at first, found only a few options. One of them was an exhibition catalogue of Palestinian artifacts held in Toronto that year, which included a compact
If you’re reading this, you probably know what I’m going to say: it’s nearly time! Time to make your MARM selection to read this November! Time to gather the ingredients for the cake recipe you’re planning to enjoy on November 18th (her 87th)! Time to pull your handmaid’s bonnet
A very simple act of reconciliation is reading and discussing books by (and, to some extent, about) First Nations and Indigenous and Metis and Inuit peoples; for bookworms, this is an action within reach every day... but particularly today, on Orange-Shirt Day, or Truth & Reconciliation Day. An official
When I last wrote here, I could have posted one of Alistair MacLeod’s famous short story openings: “It is August now, towards the end, and the weather can no longer be trusted.” It’s from “The Closing Down of Summer” and I think of it every year about mid-way through
With my return to library borrowing after the snow melted, I had realized that 2026 found me reading less non-fiction than ever (well, for nearly twenty years, anyway). And, why? If anything, I have more questions about the world than ever. So, I resolved to browse in the non-fiction
