Margaret Atwood’s “Two Scorched Men” (#MARM Week Three)

2023-11-14T13:51:00-05:00

The premise of this second story in Margaret Atwood’s new collection Old Babes in the Wood is that Nell is telling a story about two friends, John and François. “They’re dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die. This radiator incident took place in the early 1990s, when

Margaret Atwood’s “Two Scorched Men” (#MARM Week Three)2023-11-14T13:51:00-05:00

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

2023-11-09T11:03:53-05:00

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

November 2023, In My Bookbag (also, L.M. Montgomery)

2023-11-02T11:06:48-04:00

In November, Naomi and Sarah are hosting a readalong for The Story Girl, so the last time I packed up my bookbag, I stuck in my copy of Elizabeth Waterston’s Magic Island (2008) to read her chapter on L.M. Montgomery’s 1911 novel. Story Girl reads like a collection of

November 2023, In My Bookbag (also, L.M. Montgomery)2023-11-02T11:06:48-04:00

Elizabeth Harrower in Australian Reading Month 2023

2023-10-24T10:50:13-04:00

What is it about the Australian Text Classics list that’s so appealing? The North York branch of the Toronto Public Library has quite a few of them, including Elizabeth Harrower’s The Long Prospect (1958) which I’m happy to read for Brona’s Books Australian Reading Month. What I enjoyed about

Elizabeth Harrower in Australian Reading Month 20232023-10-24T10:50:13-04:00

Connecting Thread: From Corruption to Colonialism (4 of 5)

2021-12-27T16:20:08-05:00

Dirty Work by Eyal Press (2021) landed in my stack following an interview with the New York Times Book Review editor. Its subtitle—Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America—summarizes the content aptly, but doesn’t express how un-put-down-able I found this book. Most of the time, when

Connecting Thread: From Corruption to Colonialism (4 of 5)2021-12-27T16:20:08-05:00
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