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?

2014-02-27T16:14:52-05:00

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

Ongoing saga of Shelf Discovery

2025-03-25T09:16:35-04:00

I really hadn’t planned to re-read more than one of Lois Duncan’s novels for the Shelf Discovery Reading Challenge but I enjoyed Down a Dark Hall so much that I re-considered. I was really expecting it to feel more dated (and maybe it would have if I wasn’t approaching it

Ongoing saga of Shelf Discovery2025-03-25T09:16:35-04:00
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