Welcome to Margaret Atwood Reading Month, to our chat about beginnings and first encounters. I'm looking forward to hearing about how other readers first discovered her and her work. As for me, I read her early work in a burst and it's hard to remember what was the initial
Non-Fiction November is hosted this year by Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness), Julie (JulzReads), Sarah (Sarah’s Book Shelves), Katie (Doing Dewey) and Rennie (What’s Nonfiction). It's a month-long celebration of everything nonfiction with a different prompt and a different host each week. Week One is hosted by Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) and poses these questions: What
Updates to this post will appear here throughout the first several hours of the RAT. Then, in the evening I’ll be attending a bookish event, so I’ll be reading on the subway before and then being bookish elsewhere. On Sunday, I'll total my pages and enumerate the snacks that
"The AWW challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge encourages avid readers and book bloggers, male and female, living in or outside Australia, to read and review books by Australian women throughout the year. You don’t have
There are about 800 discussions of books by Canadian writers on BIP, about half the books discussed here, but far more by English-Canadian than French-Canadian writers. For the 12th Canadian Book Challenge, I will be reading in translation. But which books? Which French-Canadian writers? In a previous year (the
