The smell of chalkboard dust and soil

2014-03-09T12:46:03-04:00

Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge   Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925) This feels, to me, like the quintessentially Canadian novel, the sort that I can imagine being assigned by English teachers (well, except for a couple of scenes that would have undoubtedly ruffled

The smell of chalkboard dust and soil2014-03-09T12:46:03-04:00

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

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)

2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00

It's still early, the winter morning that I begin reading Hetty Dorval, and the train is leaving the station hesitatingly, in the dark and snowless cold. I have my other book in my lap, my fun read, the sort of read that will be perfectly absorbing even after the bulk

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00

More Canlit Reading in 2010

2014-02-27T15:02:21-05:00

I intuitively gravitate towards Canlit. A third of the books I read last year were been penned by Canadian writers and I’m aiming to be an Igloo for The Canadian Book Challenge. Not only does that feel suitably wintry (and I’m writing this on a wintry Canadian afternoon, the sky

More Canlit Reading in 20102014-02-27T15:02:21-05:00
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