Elizabeth Vonarburg's Reluctant Voyagers (1995) Trans. from the French Jane Brierley Does sci-fi reading use a different muscle? If so, mine is out of practice. And no wonder. With exception of a handful of fantasy novels and one speculative fiction novel, I've been decidedly rooted in realism this reading year.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's Birthday November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942 To mark her birthday, here is a quote from Mary Henley Rubio's Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings (TO: Doubleday - Random House, 2008): 181-2. It's a long quote, but a book-soaked one; I've broken the paragraph so that
Suzette Mayr's Venous Hum Arsenal Pulp, 2004 Yes, that's right: it's a mouth. Somehow too many canines, pink fleshy tongue: it's the cover of Venous Hum. Eye-catching from the start, but it makes more sense after you've finished reading. "It's an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence announcing the end
Margaret Laurence's The Olden Days Coat (1979) Illus. Muriel Wood Tundra Books, 1998 Every time I read this book I think "surely this time I won't cry", but I always do. And it's not because this is a sad story, but there is something so overwhelmingly touching about it, that
"The Stone Angel" (2007) Dir. Kari Skogland Writers: Margaret Laurence (novel), Kari Skogland (screenplay) As in "Rachel, Rachel", the film version of Margaret Laurence's novel A Jest of God, the emphasis in the film "The Stone Angel" is on the story's romantic relationship. And perhaps rightly so. The film makers had less than
