So, here's the thing. I'm reading like a fiend this year. And it's been making me a little crazy. Pleasantly crazy. But crazy all the same. And I look at the list of books I've read and I start to believe that spending every spare second reading is a balanced
This is my second-last Shelf Discovery Challenge post and read. I deliberately chose both this and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear to round things up because they were among the books that helped me shift away from kidlit and YA books to adult reading. The transition via
Ethel Wilson's Love and Salt Water (1956) McClelland & Stewart, NCL 1990. The advantages of reading an author's works through are many; I love the sense of truly-getting-acquainted that comes with this reading immersion, the intense satisfaction of recognizing interconnections (and divergences) between stories and longer works, the sense of
What struck me about this challenge is connected with a question that an acquaintance asked me the other day: where do I find the books that I read. It's the kind of question that reminds me just how innate reading feels to me, whilst it's unfamiliar territory for a lot
Judy Blume's Blubber (1974) Jean Little's One to Grow On (1969) Sheila Greenwald's It All Began with Jane Eyre (1980) Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy (1964) Previous shelf-discovery posts I've made have focussed on historical fiction (here, here and here) and post-apocalyptic fiction, mysteries (here) and fantasies, but the majority of my
