Summer 2019, In My Notebook

2019-08-27T12:56:24-04:00

This year I added another writer to my MRE list. In truth, he was one of the writers whose stories provoked that kind of MustReadEverything commitment early on, but I didn’t have a word for it yet. Authors who told the kind of stories that I wanted on my

Summer 2019, In My Notebook2019-08-27T12:56:24-04:00

August 2019, In My Bookbag

2019-09-20T17:02:12-04:00

In which there is talk of the slim stories which have travelled with me within the city. While bulkier volumes stayed home. Like Robertson Davies' Murther and Walking Spirits (1991). And Nazanine Hozar's Aria (2019). These are awkward travelling companions: thick and heavy But some of the skinnies in

August 2019, In My Bookbag2019-09-20T17:02:12-04:00

Dear Barbara: Final of Four Letters

2019-08-08T13:05:48-04:00

I was so caught up with telling you about the ballerina book last time, that I forgot to mention how my Elizabeth Strout reading was coming. Would you believe that I had actually read Abide with Me as well? Not only Amy and Isabelle, which I had remembered loving,

Dear Barbara: Final of Four Letters2019-08-08T13:05:48-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “The Assembly”

2019-08-07T11:07:51-04:00

This is one of those strange Paris-soaked stories that I imagine Mavis Gallant writing on an afternoon in a café when she has had too many cups of espresso. When she is in that creative mode where every gesture seen, every syllable overheard, every small intimacy observed between strangers

Mavis Gallant’s “The Assembly”2019-08-07T11:07:51-04:00

August 2019, In My Stacks

2019-08-08T12:12:56-04:00

Earlier this summer, in June, I maxed out my library card. The box which usually holds my borrowed books was so full that it was bookish-Jenga to remove one (and forget trying to add one). A neighbouring table was also commandeered. Even, for a time, the floor space between

August 2019, In My Stacks2019-08-08T12:12:56-04:00
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