When I first tried to determine the most challenging part of this season's prize-list reading, I was about to stare down the Giller longlist. Yes, you, with your 5318 pages, of which I have read only 4012. I'm not giving up, and I still have a week! And I know
I'm aiming to have all of Margaret Drabble's books on my shelves s-o-m-e-d-a-y. And I can tell myself that's do-able because I actually quite like the old Penguin paperbacks of her work. And, when you find those at booksales, they often only cost $1. Yes, they're usually a
Jacqueline L. Tobin's From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Hettie Jones) Doubleday, 2007 Midnight was the code-name for Detroit; it was the gateway to Canada, the last overtly dangerous stop on the Underground Railroad, which many slaves travelled out of America in pursuit of
When I first mentioned that Fridays were going to be reserved for letters, Laura mentioned Helene Hanff's epistolary classic right off. She reminded me how much I love this collection. And, so, I pulled the volume off the shelf and aimed for a re-read. If you're reading these
Genni Gunn's Solitaria Signature Editions, 2011 It's debatable, who is at the heart of Genni Gunn's novel, and that is partly why it is so satisfying. It ironic, given its title that it is not the story of a single person, although much of it is told from a single
