Oh, the Saga-ness of it all

2020-09-04T08:24:59-04:00

Rereading the Saga comics is definitely worthwhile. On first-reading, I was a little off-kilter, so engrossed in some panels that I missed others completely, only occasionally remembering to retrace my steps. Discovering wings or horns on characters who appeared humanoid at first glance was delightfully but consistently distracting. Readers are aware

Oh, the Saga-ness of it all2020-09-04T08:24:59-04:00

Margaret Millar’s How Like an Angel (1962)

2020-08-19T08:28:08-04:00

Exploring in the back country of Santa Barbara County California, Margaret Millar discovered a group of abandoned buildings on top of a ridge of the Santa Ynez mountains. The view was incredible: the Pacific Ocean, the Santa Ynez valley, Lake Cachuma, and the San Rafael mountains, along with a main

Margaret Millar’s How Like an Angel (1962)2020-08-19T08:28:08-04:00

Life on Mars, Again and Again

2017-07-24T15:24:28-04:00

When you've looked up a book title, have you ever been tempted by the other books you've found with the same title as the book for which you were searching? In adding Lori McNulty's debut short story collection to my online TBR list, I discovered several other books with the same

Life on Mars, Again and Again2017-07-24T15:24:28-04:00

Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984)

2018-07-25T15:00:57-04:00

"Since writing Love Medicine, I have understood that I am writing one long book in which the main chapters are also books titled Tracks, Four Souls, The Bingo Palace, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse and The Painted Drum. The characters appear and disappear in my

Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984)2018-07-25T15:00:57-04:00

2017 Africa Reading Challenge

2018-01-11T09:50:39-05:00

Even though Canada only has a land mass of 9.985 million km², reading works by Canadian writers comprises more than half of my reading. Meanwhile, Africa has a land mass of 30.37 million km² and less than 1% of my reading has come from the pens of African writers this year. Curious about that less-than-1%?

2017 Africa Reading Challenge2018-01-11T09:50:39-05:00
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