"Who is Robertson Davies? It's a fair question." This is how Val Ross opens her review in The Globe & Mail on September 28, 1991. "After all, she continues, "Davies begins most of his novels with a question or a mystery, including the latest,
Ater a year of new-new-new, January has been filled with the familiar, the known. It's not been about making new-shiny-library-residing friends, but about becoming better acquainted with long-time residents of my own bookshelves, remembering what drew particular authors onto my MRE (MustReadEverything) list and particular books onto my shelves. Have
In collection reading, since Quarterly Stories: Winter 2013 I've read Susie Moloney's Things Withered, the latest installment of the Alice Munro reading project, B.J. Novak's One More Thing, and the most recent volume of Journey Prize stories. But mostly I've been dipping into single stories in recent months. Partly this was inspired by random samplings of the latest ReLit
Crown of Horns (2003, Book Nine, Conclusion) Tall Tales (2010, Stories to be read afterwards) Bone Handbook (2010, Bonus materials) Book Nine: Crown of Horns At the heart of this volume is the story’s resolution. Readers have waited for eight volumes (nine, if they started to read the series after
Old Man’s Cave (1998, Book 6) Ghost Circles (2000, Book 7) The Treasure Hunters (2001, Book 8 ) Earlier this week I chatted about the the first three books in Jeff Smith’s Bone series (beginning with the wonderful prequel, Rose here) with chat of volumes 3 through 5 here, in
