Alice Munro’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (II) Toronto: Penguin, 1974. I find something irresistible about a story titled “How I Met My Husband”. Not very feminist-y of me. I hope I don’t lose my secret-decoder ring for saying so.And, anyway, it’s not as though traditional readers would
Alice Munro’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (I) Toronto: Penguin, 1974. When I spotted the April issue of "Quill & Quire", I was pleased to see that it included Alexander MacLeod chatting about an Alice Munro short story; I’ve been reading and re-reading Alice Munro’s stories this year
It’s been an entire month now. Talking about the series that I’ve been reading this summer. How time flies. When you’re reading. And re-reading. When you’re chatting about reading. Part of the reason that I was so determined about reading series this summer is that I had set finishing some
When I look for the words to describe re-visiting the books in the series I loved to read when I was a girl, I pluck words like ‘delightful’ and ‘splendid’ from the possibilities. Old-fashioned joy words that fit perfectly with the old-fashioned flavour of the tales I loved. Language suitable
Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest (1968) Illus. Louis Darling Readers first catch a glimpse of Ramona Quimby when she is very small, in the Henry Huggins series, but her first main appearance is in Beezus and Ramona. I was not, however, a Beezus fan. I was a Ramona fan. I
