A couple weeks ago, I shared some recent short story reading, but right now I’m thinking about reading the final stories in Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls. And how I’ll soon read the next section from her newest collection Old Babes in the Wood. But this
When I first read Moments of Truth, when it was new, I’d only read a two or three of the authors/books she discusses. And reading it was more like skimming, because I was just as spoiler-phobic then. This time, the essays have felt more inviting, more comfortable and, at least
Chang, Estima, Graves, Ma, and Teebi Appealing to a variety of reading tastes: Downright Disorienting, Superb and Strange For the second time, this different format for the Quarterly Stories. For most of the collections, summarising in five sentences, followed by a quotation. Except for one, one
Sometimes I add a very specific book to my TBR list, complete with ISBN and the source of the recommendation or the reason for my curiosity. Sometimes there’s a name added to the list, with no context or details. That’s how it was with Dunya Mikhail, so I started
Rebecca and Laura have been reading and writing about books on the Carol Shields Fiction Prize too: Rebecca (Loot, The Future and Chrysalis, Cocktail and Land of Milk and Honey and Laura (Between Two Moons and Summary) If you’re also reading from the longlist (shortlist with winner announced), please
