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
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about another long-term project I’ve enjoyed in 2024, slowly reading through the 584 pages of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning. Another book I started reading on New Year’s Day? Ruth Padel’s 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem. Occasionally I forget
When I read the description of Coleman Hill, I thought of it more as a story about place than about family. (I first read about it when it made the Carol Shields Prize longlist—eventually it was shortlisted and, yes, I’ll soon update my progress on that reading too—and it
