My favourite island

2014-03-09T13:36:55-04:00

Elizabeth Waterston's The Magic Island Oxford University Press, 2008 I've been reading this book for months. You could actually say 'years'. Which is pretty funny actually because I bought it immediately upon publication...in 2008. But its format got me hooked in a rather unusual way and in some ways I

My favourite island2014-03-09T13:36:55-04:00

Revisiting the Castle

2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

This is my second-last Shelf Discovery Challenge post and read. I deliberately chose both this and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear to round things up because they were among the books that helped me shift away from kidlit and YA books to adult reading. The transition via

Revisiting the Castle2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

Jane Urquhart’s L.M. Montgomery (2009)

2014-02-27T15:57:10-05:00

Those who have already seen the exhaustive and enticing biography of L.M. Montgomery that Mary Rubio published last year might wonder whether readers need another biography of this 20thC writer, but these two are very different. Urquhart's will appeal to those who admired Carol Shield's slim biography of Jane Austen,

Jane Urquhart’s L.M. Montgomery (2009)2014-02-27T15:57:10-05:00
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