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The table of contents is simple but thrilling for me, the book's five chapters all themes and topics of great interest: Books and Islands, Islands, Rock Paintings, Books, and Home. If the other titles in the series (from National Geographic) are even half of what this volume appears to be,
For years, vaguely since I collected The Bingo Palace with a university course in mind (but there was never enough time to read all the books I planned to read for papers) and intensely since falling in love with The Last Miracle at Little No Horse, I've wanted to go
Louise Erdrich and Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan and Elizabeth Strout: these are some of the writers whose stories about parenting, and being parented, stand out in my mind. Claudia Dey’s fiction could be included here, too, although her stories spiral around alienation and abandonment—the ways in which those who
In a short story by Carol Shields, the narrator receives too many social invitations for the same weekend evening and decides to stay home and read Jane Austen instead. I make decisions like this, too, which is why I read 201 books (54,498 pages) in 2023. In terms of
Now there is snow covering everything, and the cold is bitter even when the sun is shining, so I read this week’s story and lecture inside, under an afghan, tucked into the corner of one of the warmer rooms (saving the warmest for later winter months—like being in training,
Author's Last Author's First Title Orig. Pub. Date Illustrator Translator Simpson Lorna Collages 2018 Erdrich Louise Future Home of the Living God 2017 Washington Harriet A. A Terrible Thing to Waste 2019 Bendis Brian Michael Naomi 2019 Jamal Campbell Dark Eleanor The Little Company 1945 Wagamese Richard Embers 2016 Brathwaite
Dirty Work by Eyal Press (2021) landed in my stack following an interview with the New York Times Book Review editor. Its subtitle—Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America—summarizes the content aptly, but doesn’t express how un-put-down-able I found this book. Most of the time, when
A couple of people chose to read Hag-Seed for MARM this year, which reminded me of this discussion (which you can view, alongside) from the 2018 Stratford Festival Forum: In Conversation With Margaret Atwood—“The award-winning Canadian author, essayist, poet and activist returns to the Forum for a candid conversation
This year I re-directed my focus away from a couple of years of determinedly reading from backlists (so that new books comprised only about 30% of my reading) back to freshly published and forthcoming books.* What I hadn’t anticipated was how delicately I would need to balance my library
Elissa Washuta’s White Magic (2021) is a personal narrative of searching and locating boundaries about her own self amid the context of colonization. (She is a member of the Cowlitz tribe.) Her writing is considered experimental but it passes for conventional prose at first glance; much of her
