Hardcover edition, 2006 When the cover of Bitter Chocolate caught her eye, and a co-worker asked me what I was reading, she said "Well, what else would those kids be doing anyway". A brief outline of the child labour practices in the cocoa industry and she could have cared less. She
Dominique Fabre's The Waitress Was New (2005) Trans. Jordan Stump Archipelago Books, 2008 It begins very simply. "The waitress was new here." Pierre is not new; he has been the barman for years and years and years. When he watches the new waitress approach, it's the perspective of a seasoned
Dewey's Read-a-Thon is coming: Saturday October 22nd, 2011. Here's the link to the sign-up page. (✔) Here's the link to be a cheer-leader. (✔ ✔) And over there? That stack of spineless material? That's the bunch of books that I've gathered. (✔ ✔ ✔) Yes, it's only one day. Well,
You may have noticed that my bookishness has a new sense of sprawl to it. I've added links so that you can find me on Twitter, GoodReads, LibraryThing, and BookFace (er, Facebook, but I wanted to emphasize the important part). Please connect: I never tire of bookchat. But speaking of
Thomas Wharton's Icefields (1995) Readers will recognize quickly whether there is a match to be made between them and Thomas Wharton's first novel. Ten pages should do it. First, there is the epigraph, from Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter: "As if everything in the world is the history of ice."
