The magazines I've chatted about here so far have been exclusively bookish; I think "The Walrus" is perfectly bookish, but it's also a magazine subscription that I can send to my father, who only reads "Time" and "Macleans". So it's a ::cough:: serious magazine, that's also serious about fiction. But
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
Ethel Wilson's Love and Salt Water (1956) McClelland & Stewart, NCL 1990. The advantages of reading an author's works through are many; I love the sense of truly-getting-acquainted that comes with this reading immersion, the intense satisfaction of recognizing interconnections (and divergences) between stories and longer works, the sense of
Austin Clarke's More Thomas Allen, 2008 I can't help it: when I see a stack of new books at the library, I am compelled to, at the very least, ogle them. Usually I pick one up. Often I pet one (even if it's just a shinier version of a favourite
Ethel Wilson's Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories (Macmillan, 1961) One thing I regretted about February's reading was my having neglected to include a short story and in March I've been neglecting the books on my own shelves (in favour of newer, shinier books from the library). So before someone calls
