Alongside a handful of shared/group reading challenges (here's my mid-year update on those), I'd chosen some themes to explore and I'd spotted some gaps in my reading. Short Stories 1. Sarah Selecky's This Cake is for the Party (2010) 2. Lynn Coady’s Play the Monster Blind (2000) 3. Mavis Gallant’s
Canadian Book Challenge 4 Final status, 52/13 I read about half of the 13 books recommended by Aritha van Herk, contemporary Canlit classics, and I’m glad I included this as part of the challenge because it kept me reading books that I wouldn’t have naturally taken reading time for. And
Both Buried-in-Print Girls have finished the nine books required for the local library's summer bookclub. The older Buried-in-Print Girl has discovered manga. The younger Buried-in-Print Girl has discovered Boneville. (And I discovered that cooling off in the library's A/C daily wasn't so bad after all.) But neither of
Doris McCarthy’s Ninety Years Wise Second Story Press, 2004 This is another book that I discovered thanks to Shelagh Rogers’ The Next Chapter. You know how sometimes you hear a name so many times and you keep meaning to investigate and then, suddenly, something happens and it shifts from a
Gordon j.h. Leeanders’ To Be Continued ECW Press, 2005 Read: Sitting at freshly-assembled dining-room table. Now we can seat 8 for a meal. Or one reader and one story collection. (It was a two-course read for me.) Warning: Even if you usually spread short story collections over time, you’ll be
