Farm life

“Nettles” Alice Munro

Buried In Print2017-07-24T15:04:47-04:00

Sometimes, when I begin reading an Alice Munro story, I am overwhelmed by a sense of "there it is". It's a feeling of immediate and undeniable recognition of familiar elements. Like the beginning of "Nettles", which begins with firmly rooting the reader in a time and place. It is summer.

“Nettles” Alice MunroBuried In Print2017-07-24T15:04:47-04:00

Jane Urquhart’s Sanctuary Line (2010)

Buried In Print2014-03-13T21:09:51-04:00

Jane Urquhart's Sanctuary Line McClelland & Stewart, 2010 Liz Crane is an entomologist; she studies insects. Specifically butterflies – monarchs. But, more generally, she takes time to examine what others frequently overlook. As a narrator, therefore, her perspective will not be to every reader’s taste. She has also suffered a

Jane Urquhart’s Sanctuary Line (2010)Buried In Print2014-03-13T21:09:51-04:00

Canada Reads: Jeff Lemire

Buried In Print2014-03-10T20:38:55-04:00

Jeff Lemire’s Essex County (Collected) Top Shelf Productions, 2010 Here’s what I scribbled in my notebook when I finished reading Tales From the Farm in 2008: The first in Jeff Lemire’s Essex County trilogy feels in some ways like the antithesis to [Craig Thompson’s] Blankets – a very slim volume, with

Canada Reads: Jeff LemireBuried In Print2014-03-10T20:38:55-04:00