In my first post about this year's Once Upon a Time reading, I mentioned all the books that I have, since, finished reading, though at the time I was just beginning: Image links to Challenge AnnouncementImage by Melissa Nucera Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride (1993), Bill Willingham's 1001 Nights of Snowfall (2006), Charles
Some writers might take a book to do it. Carol Shields did, in Swann. Timothy Findley did, in The Wars. 1990; Penguin, 1991 Alice Munro takes a short story to build a life from fragments left behind. In this case, in "Meneseteung", the fragments are culled from a
As with "Friend of My Youth", the bulk of "Five Points" concerns a story told by one of the characters, Neil, who is speaking of events from his past, when he was a boy in British Columbia. 1990; Penguin, 1991 In both stories, the story rooted in Neil's
When we meet Jonny, he can't sleep; he turns on the light to play The Secret Land of Zenon. Simon & Schuster, 2013 In this first sentence of Teddy Wayne's novel, Jonny might be any eleven-year-old boy. But even while listening to the background music for Zenon, Jonny
The title story of this collection begins with talk of an act being "too transparent in its hopefulness, too easy in its forgiveness". 1990; Penguin, 1991 On first reading, this seems a straightforward observation about the narrator's relationship with her mother. She has been dreaming of her mother
