November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Two: November 8-14

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Happy Week Two, MARM-ers. The clocks were turned back on the weekend, so it’s dark before five, but no snow quite yet. Most of the bigger trees have lost all their leaves but the sun is shining brightly this afternoon, while I’m munching on roasted pumpkin seeds and thinking

November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Two: November 8-142023-11-09T11:03:53-05:00

Read the Change (You Want to See in the World), Recommendations

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Even if you’re not often reading about the climate crisis, I’ve got one for you: Jane Goodall’s The Book of Hope (2021). It not only includes many reasons to remain hopeful—Amazing Human Intellect, Resilience of Nature, Power of Young People, and the Indomitable Human Spirit—but truly inspires readers. Its

Read the Change (You Want to See in the World), Recommendations2023-01-16T17:41:40-05:00

Quarterly Stories: Winter 2022

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Abdullah, Hage, Friedman, Ha, Orner and Atwood Short Stories in October, November, and December Whether in a dedicated collection or a magazine, these stories capture a variety of reading moods. This quarter, I returned to three favourite writers and also explored three new-to-me story writers.

Quarterly Stories: Winter 20222023-01-17T08:56:55-05:00

Here and Elsewhere Reading in 2022

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On the day that I got my visitor’s card at the library here, I borrowed Marie-Louise Gay’s Mustafa (2018): a children’s story (Gay illustrates, writes, and translates) about a boy who searches for himself, in the space between his old country and his new country. Certains soirs, Mustafa rêve

Here and Elsewhere Reading in 20222023-01-20T14:48:28-05:00

Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle

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Poetry is a place into which we can disappear from pain. In these collections, there are many other themes explored, but these passages intertwined like threads through my reading. In “A Toothless Crackhead Was the Mascot” from Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015): “This begins the concept

Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle2022-11-17T11:56:56-05:00
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