The Once Upon a Time Challenge

2025-06-25T08:42:18-04:00

It's partly because of the beautiful image, that I first saw posted here, and partly because I so recently enjoyed re-reading some childhood fantasy favourites, and partly because I've recently finished two other reading challenges for the year (Canada Reads and Canada Reads Independently), and partly because in taking a

The Once Upon a Time Challenge2025-06-25T08:42:18-04:00

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks

2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00

Mary Stewart's The Little Broomstick (1971) Julie Andrews Edwards' The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (1974) Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (1962) If I'd looked back to my childhood reading, I would have described myself as being much more comfortable with witches and dragons, enchantments and whangdoodles, than

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00

The Gosh-Golly-Gee-Jeepers Line

2014-03-09T11:44:15-04:00

This Saturday is all-historical, as was last week's, with one proper Shelf Discovery choice and one of my "particularly Canlit Shelf Discovery" choices. Next Saturday will feature three of my favourite fantasy reads. Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963) It may have been cheating a little to re-read

The Gosh-Golly-Gee-Jeepers Line2014-03-09T11:44:15-04:00

Proust in a Rose Garden

2014-02-27T17:38:55-05:00

Kristjana Gunnars' The Rose Garden (1996) When I bought my copy of The Rose Garden, it was shelved in Fiction at The Bookshelf in Guelph,  which is such a good bookstore that eventually I had to move to the town so that I could visit there more often than once

Proust in a Rose Garden2014-02-27T17:38:55-05:00

Feisty orphans: gotta love them

2014-02-27T17:32:35-05:00

This Saturday marks the beginning of a series of Saturdays devoted to Shelf-Discovery reads, or Shelf-Discovery-inspired reads. I joined the actual Challenge late, else there would have been more Saturdays filled with nostalgic re-reading of kidlit heretofore. But better re-read later than never to have read at all. This Saturday

Feisty orphans: gotta love them2014-02-27T17:32:35-05:00
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