Anne Tyler's Noah's Compass (2009) It was with the best of intentions that I stood in front of the New Books shelves, doing the mental math that had allowed me to walk out of the public library the past four nights in a row (well, yes, I go almost every
I love it when one read brushes up against another and this happened twice with two of mine this reading month.First, in Christina Longford's Making Conversation (1931), I came across this: "Miss Spencer at the High School had always scolded her for saying 'well,' and used to ask, 'Where's
Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge Katrina Onstad’s How Happy to Be (2006) As I’ve already mentioned, I didn’t find out about Canada Reads Independently until I’d already gotten myself thoroughly and completely Buried In Print for February; I can’t remember the
1949; New Canadian Library 1990 I don’t really need an answer to the question I’ve posed. I understand why Persephone would have chosen to print Hetty Dorval over The Innocent Traveller: Ethel Wilson’s first book is certainly a striking work and brings to mind other brilliant novellas (e.g.
The biggest of book-soaked thanks to A Guy's Moleskine Notebook for the blogging honour of The One Lovely Blog Award. He said: "Every once in a while a new commentator would leave very refreshing and thoughtful remarks in the blog. It’s almost like that revolutionary Apple computer commercial in 1984 in
