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Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley #1952Club

2025-04-25T10:40:27-04:00

I assume that babies born in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, are wrapped in a receiving blanket with a copy of Ernest Buckler’s 1952 novel tucked into its folds. It’s #23 on the New Canadian Library list of classics, which launched in 1958. And Quill & Quire ranked

Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley #1952Club2025-04-25T10:40:27-04:00

April 2025, In My Bookbag

2025-04-04T09:57:22-04:00

Since 2020, my bookbag has been at home more often than not, so this has also become a place to share the books I’ve found myself reading in bits and pieces. Originally, I bought Democracy with last year’s MARM in mind, for Margaret Atwood’s contribution. It opens with a

April 2025, In My Bookbag2025-04-04T09:57:22-04:00

A Shared Project: George Saunders (Chekov, Third Story II)

2025-04-15T09:47:26-04:00

If I were to witness a murder, I figure I’d be like that woman in the Swedish drama “The Breakthrough” who sees the perpetrator straight on but, later, cannot recall a single facial feature. So Saunders’ point about the previous story, about Turgenev’s physical descriptions in “The Singers”, didn’t

A Shared Project: George Saunders (Chekov, Third Story II)2025-04-15T09:47:26-04:00

First Sentences, Lasting Impressions

2025-04-03T14:03:29-04:00

Even though I nearly always follow Mavis Gallant’s advice about reading short stories (in short, don’t rush), something about the way I’m reading stories this year has changed. Or something about the rest of my reading has changed. Choosing more responsively has made my stack more unruly than usual.

First Sentences, Lasting Impressions2025-04-03T14:03:29-04:00

Agustina Bazterrica, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Guadalupe Nettel #ShelfOfMexico

2025-04-07T11:54:32-04:00

In Boy George’s 2023 autobiography Karma, he says: “Having an opinion is always bad for business.” He’s got lots of them himself, but there’s he’s describing—and celebrating—how Taylor Swift took a political stance against homophobia when some warned her it was bad for business. Author Louise Penny has spoken

Agustina Bazterrica, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Guadalupe Nettel #ShelfOfMexico2025-04-07T11:54:32-04:00
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