Autumn Reading: Unexpected and Selected

2025-12-28T13:10:44-05:00

Reading “seasonally” has offered another way to contemplate reading options on my own shelves; and it forms a bridge between my life on-the-page and off-the-page. The first three quotations below were from books that I did not choose to read because it was fall, and I was surprised to

Autumn Reading: Unexpected and Selected2025-12-28T13:10:44-05:00

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) Parts I-IV #MARM2025

2025-11-06T09:38:11-05:00

“It’s November; it’s almost bedtime”—in autumn 1919, when older Iris remembers reading her ABCs as a child, and determines that she’s never been the kind of person who could drive off a bridge. Neither she nor her mother was that sort, but her father could have and, it seems

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) Parts I-IV #MARM20252025-11-06T09:38:11-05:00

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)

2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00

The past few days, I’ve shared talk of ten different books by and about Indigenous stories (here, here, and here), and today I’ll write about three more: some poems, a novel, and an illustrated song. D.A. Lockhart’s 2022 collection, Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press, in Neyaashiinigmiing / Owen

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00

May 2019, In My Reading Log

2019-09-25T14:38:37-04:00

A single-sitting read, a summer road-trip, and Sesame Street: good reading. Margriet De Moor’s Sleepless Night (1989; Trans. David Doherty 2019) “Sleepless night succeeded sleepless night – agonized day followed agonized day.” This, from L.M. Montgomery’s 1918 journal, came to mind when I was reading Margriet De Moor’s Sleepless Night

May 2019, In My Reading Log2019-09-25T14:38:37-04:00
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