November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Two: November 8-14

2023-11-09T11:03:53-05:00

Happy Week Two, MARM-ers. The clocks were turned back on the weekend, so it’s dark before five, but no snow quite yet. Most of the bigger trees have lost all their leaves but the sun is shining brightly this afternoon, while I’m munching on roasted pumpkin seeds and thinking

November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week Two: November 8-142023-11-09T11:03:53-05:00

Novellas in November: Since Last Year #NovNov

2023-11-08T12:07:29-05:00

Hosted by Cathy and Rebecca with weekly themes and a link collector, the first week of this event invites participants to “tell us about any novellas you have read since last NovNov” (it’s okay not to follow the five week’s themes exactly and, instead, allow them to mesh with

Novellas in November: Since Last Year #NovNov2023-11-08T12:07:29-05:00

Margaret Atwood’s “Rape Fantasies” (#MARM Week One)

2023-11-03T10:37:29-04:00

Initially, I watched Hana Gartner interviewing Margaret Atwood on “Take 30” Sept. 27, 1977 as a complement to Dancing Girls, and ostensibly that’s the subject. But it’s more interesting as an example of the kind of preconceptions and judgements Atwood’s faced throughout her career. You don’t learn about the

Margaret Atwood’s “Rape Fantasies” (#MARM Week One)2023-11-03T10:37:29-04:00

November 2023, In My Bookbag (also, L.M. Montgomery)

2023-11-02T11:06:48-04:00

In November, Naomi and Sarah are hosting a readalong for The Story Girl, so the last time I packed up my bookbag, I stuck in my copy of Elizabeth Waterston’s Magic Island (2008) to read her chapter on L.M. Montgomery’s 1911 novel. Story Girl reads like a collection of

November 2023, In My Bookbag (also, L.M. Montgomery)2023-11-02T11:06:48-04:00

November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week One: November 1-7

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Part of the appeal of MARM for me is a sense of having reserved the month. When I heard about Old Babes in the Wood, I thought, November! And that, simultaneously, seems to create an opportunity for other reading, in the remaining eleven months. (Next year, I think I

November 2023 #MARM Margaret Atwood Reading Month Week One: November 1-72023-10-30T16:15:51-04:00
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