Well, I've decided. (Decided what?) Partly because the host's reminder of the first round-up for participants has come around. Partly because I think I could have put off deciding for a year, so I felt a snap decision might be better, freeing me to obsess about next year's line-up guilt-free. Partly
I've been thinking a lot about my plans for this challenge because last year's was so satisfying. You know the feeling, when you've just finished a really good book? It's hard to follow up that reading experience: you can't choose something that you know will fall short of the freshly-set-satisfied
Arlene Perly Rae's Everybody's Favourites Penguin, 1997 One of the quotes that appears as an epigraph to this volume felt particularly poignant to me this summer: "One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best." It's courtesy of Clifton Fadiman (yes, father of the infamous Ex Libris author) and
Nicole Brossard's Fences in Breathing, Translated from the French (2007), Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood Coach House Books, 2009 Today's bookish book was an easy choice because I had chosen Nicole Brossard as one of the writers whose feminist writing I wanted to explore for this year's Women Unbound Reading Challenge and
Maureen Jennings' Except the Dying St. Martin's Press, 1997 M&S, 2004 Remember when I said that I'd be reading mysteries and classics this summer? Well, I'm doing a great job of reading those mysteries. The classics are definitely taking a backseat. It's been hot; we've been busy (bike-riding, playing games, learning
