Summer 2021: In My Stacks

2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

I’ve been to the islands in my summer reading this year: Norwegian, Atlantic Canadian, Jamaican, Greenlandian and Sri Lankan. Roy Jacobsen’s Ingrid trilogy landed in my stack thanks to a reading copy of White Shadow from Biblioasis, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. Partly because I liked the

Summer 2021: In My Stacks2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

#ReadIndigenous Mini Aodla Freeman and Eden Robinson

2021-07-01T13:21:29-04:00

Mini Aodla Freeman’s Life among the Qallunaat (1978; 2015) is the third book published in the University of Manitoba’s First Voices, First Texts series. It chronicles her experiences as an Inuit woman adjusting to life south of the Arctic in the 1950s, working as a translator for many

#ReadIndigenous Mini Aodla Freeman and Eden Robinson2021-07-01T13:21:29-04:00

Slavery: Past and Present #280898 Reasons (2 of 4)

2021-06-03T16:21:08-04:00

Although this project was motivated by a recent statistic reported from the 2020 election in the United States, I’ve been reading about slavery since I was a kid. But, first, I watched Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) and A Woman Called Moses (1978) about

Slavery: Past and Present #280898 Reasons (2 of 4)2021-06-03T16:21:08-04:00

Here and Elsewhere: Amsterdam

2020-12-01T12:01:48-05:00

When I was a girl, I was obsessed with The Diary of Anne Frank. I reread the first half of it so many times that that part of the spine sheds specks of paper; a couple of years ago, I finally finished reading. Because I knew how it ended,

Here and Elsewhere: Amsterdam2020-12-01T12:01:48-05:00

Wendy McGrath’s Trilogy and Poetry

2020-11-19T15:05:04-05:00

Spoiler: I absolutely loved Wendy McGrath’s trilogy and it’s one of my 2020 standout reading experiences. In the upcoming Winter issue of Herizons, you can read my review of Wendy McGrath’s final novel in her Edmonton trilogy, Broke City (2019). (Herizons is a Canadian feminist magazine, which I

Wendy McGrath’s Trilogy and Poetry2020-11-19T15:05:04-05:00
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