Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms (1993) This debut novel is a great choice for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge because relationships, particularly those between women, are at the heart of it, even more particularly, the relationships between three women in one family: Naoe, Keiko and Muriel (a.k.a. Murasaki, which is
Click Melissa Nucera's beautiful image for the Once Upon a Time Challenge Site For the past several Saturdays I have been writing about kidlit and the YA novels that Lizzie Skurnick's Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading inspired me to re-read. (I love re-reading, but
Dionne Brand's Ossuaries McClelland & Stewart, 2010 So with all my chatter about exercising, poetry muscles and otherwise, you might be relieved to know that I am, at last, beginning to get into shape. Not only did I buy a poetry book but I walked to the store. I tell
Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here Random House, 1986 The Women Unbound Reading Challenge was the perfect excuse that I needed to fill the gap in my Dionne Brand reading with her first novel In Another Place, Not Here. I bought my copy on the weekend (I loaned out
Elizabeth Waterston's The Magic Island Oxford University Press, 2008 I've been reading this book for months. You could actually say 'years'. Which is pretty funny actually because I bought it immediately upon publication...in 2008. But its format got me hooked in a rather unusual way and in some ways I
