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I’m usually rather serious. As when discussing books like Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, and Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Spiral. (Yes, I have a thing for Michaels.) But I can also be silly. (As in “Dear Public Library”.)
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A Voracious Enthusiast
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Recent Bookchat
About the pages that I’ve been turning
(A sticky post, then cross-category posts, newest to oldest)
Fresh bookishness!
Mini Update Sticky Post: June 27, 2024 If you're looking to catch up? Check out my reflections on 2023's reading, and plans for 2024. All year I've been
June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (5 of 5)
Today’s discussion includes four more books by Indigenous authors adding to the previous days’ bookchat (one, two, three, four), sparked by Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st.
June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)
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:
June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (3 of 5)
Last time, I wrote about three books by Indigenous writers (three prior, four before that), and today I’m writing about three more: a work of art and
June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (2 of 5)
Last time, I posted about four books by Indigenous authors and about Indigenous history, today I’m writing about three books by Indigenous writers. “She was the chief.
June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (1 of 5)
It’s Indigenous Peoples Day, and I have a variety of reading selections to share over the next few days: something for every reading mood. Pawaminikititicikiw’s (Wilfred Buck’)
June 2024, In My Bookbag
It occurred to me to keep The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu as a novella for November. But when I was rushing to leave the house one afternoon,
#LoveYourLibrary or, actually, Libraries
Recently I’ve had such a great experience with the 2024 Best volumes that Biblioasis publishes annually featuring Canadian writers, that a casual chat between Rebecca and me,
Quarterly Stories, Spring 2024
Bucak, Irving, Lahiri, Ndiaye, and Towles Appealing to a variety of reading tastes: Trendy Translations, Honed and Haunting Trying something a little
Reader and Writer
Grateful for so many good connections, good matches between B.I.P. and particular books!
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