“Fragile, terrifying, and true”: Alice Munro

2014-03-13T20:45:23-04:00

Alice Munro’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (I) Toronto: Penguin, 1974. When I spotted the April issue of "Quill & Quire", I was pleased to see that it included Alexander MacLeod chatting about an Alice Munro short story; I’ve been reading and re-reading Alice Munro’s stories this year

“Fragile, terrifying, and true”: Alice Munro2014-03-13T20:45:23-04:00

Felice Holman’s Slake’s Limbo (1974)

2014-03-09T17:53:06-04:00

Felice Holman's Slake's Limbo (1974) Aladdin Books, 1986 The idea of people living underground (you know, some call them "mole people", those making homes and living out their lives in storm drains and subway networks, underground sections of major cities) has fascinated me since I first heard of the idea

Felice Holman’s Slake’s Limbo (1974)2014-03-09T17:53:06-04:00

Reading Relationally

2014-07-11T15:58:32-04:00

Judy Blume's Blubber (1974) Jean Little's One to Grow On (1969) Sheila Greenwald's It All Began with Jane Eyre (1980) Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy (1964) Previous shelf-discovery posts I've made have focussed on historical fiction (here, here and here) and post-apocalyptic fiction, mysteries (here) and fantasies, but the majority of my

Reading Relationally2014-07-11T15:58:32-04:00

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks

2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00

Mary Stewart's The Little Broomstick (1971) Julie Andrews Edwards' The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (1974) Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (1962) If I'd looked back to my childhood reading, I would have described myself as being much more comfortable with witches and dragons, enchantments and whangdoodles, than

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00

Re-reading Lois Duncan

2018-05-30T10:34:16-04:00

I pulled Down a Dark Hall off my shelf because it was in such poor shape that it stood out as having been re-read most frequently. But that wasn't an easy call: they all look pretty rough. When I got to high school, I entered the phase where I tried

Re-reading Lois Duncan2018-05-30T10:34:16-04:00
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