Welcome to my third bookish Friday. Have I mentioned how much fun I'm having with Fridays now? It's not much of a stretch to assume that most people who are writing books are somewhat bookish themselves. But I don't think it's always true. I heard an interview with Katherine Neville
Margaret Atwood's The Door McClelland & Stewart, 2007 Serious about helping me tone my oh-so flabby poetry muscle, Mr. BIP bought me a copy of Margaret Atwood's The Door. Yup, I'm lucky that way. For those who are wondering how the exercise regiment is going, I'm going to the poetry
Ethel Wilson's Stories, Essays and Letters, Ed. David Stouck U of BC Press, 1987 If you are keenly interested in Ethel Wilson, you will definitely appreciate this volume, which does gather nine stories not published in her Mrs. Golightly collection, six essays, and selected correspondence from 1944 through 1974. And,
Mary McAlpine's The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson Harbour Publishing, 1988 I came across this bit in David Stouck's biography before I even had a copy of Mary McAlpine's book in my hands and it raised a string of questions that niggled and nagged until I
Click the beautiful image for the Challenge Site Hiromi Goto's The Water of Possibility Coteau Books, 2002 A few weeks ago, I re-read Janet Lunn's 1981 children's novel The Root Cellar. In her novel, the root cellar is a portal to another time and Rose's travels through it
