Kristjana Gunnars' The Rose Garden (1996) When I bought my copy of The Rose Garden, it was shelved in Fiction at The Bookshelf in Guelph, which is such a good bookstore that eventually I had to move to the town so that I could visit there more often than once
Di Brandt's So this is the World and here I am in it (2007) Imagine my excitement in picking up Di Brandt's So this is the world and here I am in it (2007) for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge and discovering that not only was one of my earlier
Di Brandt's Speaking of Power (2006) I came across Di Brandt's work shortly after university when I was finally able to read what I wanted to read from the library shelves, my trusty alumnus card in hand, borrowing from the HQs and PRs like nobody's business. This was in the
Kim Echlin's Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue on Women and Creativity (2004) When I included Elizabeth Smart on my list of reading for Women Unbound, I was sure that she belonged. Then, when I started into the reading in earnest, I wasn't sure; she seemed decidedly bound by her relationship with
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
