Lemon-Sweet: Half-Blood Blues

2020-05-21T15:55:57-04:00

I spent a ridiculous amount of time touching this cover (and wishing the hole in the centre was actually cut) Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011  In the opening pages of Esi Edugyan’s second novel, readers meet Heiro, Chip, Delilah and Sid, and are immersed in

Lemon-Sweet: Half-Blood Blues2020-05-21T15:55:57-04:00

Thoughts on Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010)

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Emma Donoghue's Room HarperCollins, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) I’d hoped to re-read Room before writing about it here, in the context of the Orange Prize shortlist, but I still have two fresh reads from this year’s shortlist ahead of me (The

Thoughts on Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010)2014-07-11T16:03:31-04:00

Kathleen Winter’s Annabel (2010)

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Kathleen Winter's Annabel House of Anansi, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Like Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River, it’s impossible to imagine Kathleen Winter’s Annabel being set anywhere other than the landscape therein. “In Croyden Harbour human life came

Kathleen Winter’s Annabel (2010)2014-07-11T17:22:23-04:00
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