Revisiting the Castle

2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

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

Revisiting the Castle2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

Reading Relationally

2014-07-11T15:58:32-04:00

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

Reading Relationally2014-07-11T15:58:32-04:00

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

Oprah Bookclub, 1954

2014-02-27T19:17:23-05:00

If Oprah had had a bookclub in 1954, she would have chosen Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel. And I say this because, despite the ongoing debate amongst booklovers about the significance of Oprah's Bookclub, she has featured many of my favourite writers (e.g. Jane Hamilton, Ursula Hegi, Rohinton Mistry, Barbara Kingsolver,

Oprah Bookclub, 19542014-02-27T19:17:23-05:00

Borrow, Renew, Renew, Return

2014-02-27T19:15:47-05:00

Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog Translated from the French by Alison Anderson (2006) Europa Editions, 2008 So I borrowed this as an uncatalogued paperback from the library. Sometime last autumn. ::deliberate vagueness:: I felt lucky because, as it was uncatalogued, it wasn't being tracked the same way as

Borrow, Renew, Renew, Return2014-02-27T19:15:47-05:00
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