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Winter 2017, In My Bookbag

Buried In Print2018-01-17T15:36:01-05:00

My reading year began with Marina Endicott's New Year's Eve (2011), written with literacy front-of-mind; its vocabulary, structure and tone are meant to ease the passage for readers with varying degrees of ease reading in English. It begins simply: "The snow started before we left home." Despite its brevity ,

Winter 2017, In My BookbagBuried In Print2018-01-17T15:36:01-05:00

Quarterly Stories: Autumn 2014

Buried In Print2017-07-24T14:27:25-04:00

“Bad coffee can only keep you company for so long at four a.m. in a bus depot.” Caitlin Press, 2014 All of the characters in Janine Alyson Young’s debut collection seem as though they would immediately recognize the truth of that. They all seem to have a spot

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Page-turners: sometimes mysterious

Buried In Print2017-07-24T15:36:17-04:00

Nothing like a good mystery. Some serial fun, with Giles Blunt, Ian Hamilton, Louise Penny, or my most recent discovery, the Nina Borg series by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis. But one can find a good page-turner in the standalone novels on the fiction shelves too. Take Claire Cameron's freshly published The Bear, longlisted

Page-turners: sometimes mysteriousBuried In Print2017-07-24T15:36:17-04:00