Stewing about the 4th Canadian Book Challenge

2014-03-09T17:06:57-04:00

I've been thinking a lot about my plans for this challenge because last year's was so satisfying. You know the feeling, when you've just finished a really good book? It's hard to follow up that reading experience: you can't choose something that you know will fall short of the freshly-set-satisfied

Stewing about the 4th Canadian Book Challenge2014-03-09T17:06:57-04:00

A Favourite about Favourites

2014-03-09T16:32:38-04:00

Arlene Perly Rae's Everybody's Favourites Penguin, 1997 One of the quotes that appears as an epigraph to this volume felt particularly poignant to me this summer: "One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best." It's courtesy of Clifton Fadiman (yes, father of the infamous Ex Libris author) and

A Favourite about Favourites2014-03-09T16:32:38-04:00

Nicole Brossard’s Fences in Breathing (2007)

2014-03-09T16:22:33-04:00

Nicole Brossard's Fences in Breathing, Translated from the French (2007), Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood Coach House Books, 2009 Today's bookish book was an easy choice because I had chosen Nicole Brossard as one of the writers whose feminist writing I wanted to explore for this year's Women Unbound Reading Challenge and

Nicole Brossard’s Fences in Breathing (2007)2014-03-09T16:22:33-04:00

Maureen Jennings’ Except the Dying (1997)

2014-03-09T16:20:55-04:00

Maureen Jennings' Except the Dying St. Martin's Press, 1997 M&S, 2004 Remember when I said that I'd be reading mysteries and classics this summer? Well, I'm doing a great job of reading those mysteries. The classics are definitely taking a backseat. It's been hot; we've been busy (bike-riding, playing games, learning

Maureen Jennings’ Except the Dying (1997)2014-03-09T16:20:55-04:00

Co-reading Ethel Wilson

2014-03-09T16:10:40-04:00

Ethel Wilson's The Equations of Love Macmillan, 1952 When Melwyk said that she, too, only had this one Ethel Wilson left to read, we decided to read the two novellas published in Equations of Love together. You know how it is, when you are about to exhaust a favoured writer's

Co-reading Ethel Wilson2014-03-09T16:10:40-04:00
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