Sometimes jazz plays. Sometimes there is cake.

2014-07-11T17:07:10-04:00

Touchstone - S&S, 2013 How many women have read Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s classic A Gift from the Sea. Nodding along with passages that could have been pulled from their own musings and diary pages. “Don't wish me happiness. I don't expect to be happy…. It's gotten beyond that,

Sometimes jazz plays. Sometimes there is cake.2014-07-11T17:07:10-04:00

Hilary Scharper’s Perdita (2013)

2014-03-20T20:52:39-04:00

Oh, the trees! If you, like me, grew up with Anne and Emily naming and loving trees in L.M. Montgomery's novels, you will love Hilary Scharper's novel Perdita. Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, 2013 There are many other reasons to respond to this story: a love of history,

Hilary Scharper’s Perdita (2013)2014-03-20T20:52:39-04:00

Lynn Crosbie’s Life Is About Losing Everything (2012)

2020-09-30T08:28:15-04:00

"You don't know how to life your life anymore and you start drowning in it." House of Anansi, 2012 That's the thing about depression, Lynn Crosbie explains in an interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio. She describes what happens when you really start looking at the world, with

Lynn Crosbie’s Life Is About Losing Everything (2012)2020-09-30T08:28:15-04:00

No sobbing required: A different kind of animal story

2014-03-20T15:39:43-04:00

Finally: a story about animals that won't leave you in a puddle, heart-broken, swearing off all other animal stories for life. (I won't name them here, because including them in this context is truly spoilerific, but you know the stories I'm referring to. We probably cried in all the same

No sobbing required: A different kind of animal story2014-03-20T15:39:43-04:00

Sniffling in the Toronto Reference Library

2014-03-18T11:13:48-04:00

Suzanne Robertson's Paramita, Little Black has been nominated for the 2012 Toronto Book Award. And lucky for me, because I would not have read this slim volume of verse had it not been. Lucky for me, because it's another reminder that poetry doesn't have to be this far-away thing that

Sniffling in the Toronto Reference Library2014-03-18T11:13:48-04:00
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