In Mothers of the Novel, when Dale Spender writes about her education, she doesn’t consider it inferior. But somehow she graduated with the belief that men had invented the novel and that they’d written all the good ones. So the table in her book (and contents overall), containing the
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
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
As usual, Kaggsy and Simon have chosen a year rich with reading possibilities. As not-exactly-unusual, I have done better at gathering possibilities than of reading them. Initially I planned to expand my reading of James Baldwin, but the interlibrary-loan copy wasn’t speedy (sometimes it’s a week, sometimes weeks—depending how
As anyone who participates in bookish events online knows, November is an exceptionally busy month for themed reading; if Margaret Atwood had been born in any other month, I’d’ve chosen another, but here we are. And, why choose Margaret Atwood as the subject of a reading event to begin
