Mazo de la Roche’s Variable Winds at Jalna (1955)

2024-07-19T11:12:55-04:00

In chatting about the previous volume, Renny’s Daughter (1951), I mused on the future of Adeline’s romance. Because in the volume before, Return to Jalna (1956) she had committed to remaining unmarried to spend her adult life at her father’s side. (The volumes were written out of story-order. Mazo de

Mazo de la Roche’s Variable Winds at Jalna (1955)2024-07-19T11:12:55-04:00

Autumn 2018: In My Reading Log

2018-12-06T10:42:54-05:00

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall (1947) “It was a mystery story she had got out of the lending library for her father, and she was not fond of mystery stories. Nobody in them ever seems to feel sorry about murders, she had said.” How unfortunate that Lucia is

Autumn 2018: In My Reading Log2018-12-06T10:42:54-05:00

Mavis Gallant’s “From the Fifteenth District”

2018-12-05T14:54:07-05:00

“Although an epidemic of haunting, widely reported, spread through the Fifteenth District of our city last summer, only three acceptable complaints were lodged with the police.” Having read about half of Mavis Gallant’s short stories now, and never yet having met a ghost, imagine my surprise at finding three

Mavis Gallant’s “From the Fifteenth District”2018-12-05T14:54:07-05:00

Thoughts on Reading as a Shadow Giller Jury Member

2018-12-05T16:05:29-05:00

Let’s start with the obvious: it’s not perfect. This whole question of a literary prizelist. A prizelist is going to reflect many different things, from the jurors’ preferences to the prize founders’ or administrators’ networks, from the cultural zeitgeist to the political climate. It is unlikely to reflect any

Thoughts on Reading as a Shadow Giller Jury Member2018-12-05T16:05:29-05:00

In Other Reading

2022-02-10T16:27:49-05:00

Much of September and October were occupied by reading books which appeared on prizelists and a few which I thought might appear there. Most of these I’ve already discussed (a quick way to locate them is through my Autumn 2018 Prizelists and Events page, which collects the relevant posts

In Other Reading2022-02-10T16:27:49-05:00
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