When I was re-reading the wonderful 84 Charing Cross Road last month, this bit caught my eye: "You’ll be fascinated to learn (from me that hates novels) that I finally got around to Jane Austen and went out of my mind over Pride & Prejudice which I can’t bring myself to
To launch Ghanaian Literature Week, which Kinna is hosting, I've started by reading an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo. It's part of a collection in Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk (Routledge, 2004). There are quite a few interviews of interest, but this week I only have eyes for Ama
Dominique Fabre's The Waitress Was New (2005) Trans. Jordan Stump Archipelago Books, 2008 It begins very simply. "The waitress was new here." Pierre is not new; he has been the barman for years and years and years. When he watches the new waitress approach, it's the perspective of a seasoned
Kinna Reads is hosting the second annual Ghanaian Literature Week which begins Monday, November 14th and runs through Sunday, November 20th. I've gathered a small stack and I'm making bookish plans: one of my favourite things to do...make book lists! So I plan to read one children's book (Adwoa Badoe's Ananse Stories) because I've been curious
Book-brained Who has not heard of The Life of Pi? But did you know that author Yann Martel vowed to send the Canadian prime minister books to read for the duration of his term in office. For those of you who aren't Canadian, that's Stephen Harper -- the prime
