A Moody Reader?

2014-02-27T16:50:25-05:00

Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a

A Moody Reader?2014-02-27T16:50:25-05:00

Settling in with Elizabeth Smart

2014-02-27T16:38:36-05:00

Elizabeth Smart’s Journals, Edited by Alice van Wart Necessary Secrets (1991) and On the Side of the Angels (1994) Let’s say you haven’t even heard of this writer before and, as a good little feminist, you wonder why I’ve chosen to read her for the Women Unbound Challenge, and you

Settling in with Elizabeth Smart2014-02-27T16:38:36-05:00

A Reader’s Great (or Not So) Expectations

2014-02-27T16:33:55-05:00

Click the cover to visit the author's site Douglas Coupland's Generation X (1991) Generation X should top my mental list of reads that remind me why re-reading is important. I read this book shortly after it was published, but I didn't remember much about it at all. And perhaps

A Reader’s Great (or Not So) Expectations2014-02-27T16:33:55-05:00

Persephone: Why Hetty Dorval?

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1949; New Canadian Library 1990 I don’t really need an answer to the question I’ve posed. I understand why Persephone would have chosen to print Hetty Dorval over The Innocent Traveller: Ethel Wilson’s first book is certainly a striking work and brings to mind other brilliant novellas (e.g.

Persephone: Why Hetty Dorval?2014-02-27T16:14:52-05:00

Getting to know the author Elizabeth Smart

2014-02-27T16:00:34-05:00

Elizabeth Smart’s Autobiographies (1987) I vividly recall my first attempt at By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept; I read about one page and set it aside because I’d been looking for a quick read. Despite its slim form, Elizabeth Smart’s work is the sort that, for me,

Getting to know the author Elizabeth Smart2014-02-27T16:00:34-05:00
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