Calamity’s Brand of Sassy Compassion

2014-03-09T15:58:28-04:00

Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms Warner, 2003 Last Sunday I mentioned Nalo Hopkinson's 2003 novel, The Salt Roads; today I've got her 2007 novel The New Moon's Arms on the book-brain. I finished reading it on the front porch on an exceptionally lovely summer afternoon, the sort which is

Calamity’s Brand of Sassy Compassion2014-03-09T15:58:28-04:00

Charmed by Once Upon a Time?

2014-03-09T15:56:56-04:00

P.K. Page's The Old Woman and the Hen Illus. Jim Westergard The Porcupine's Quill, 2009 I wasn't planning to include a Once Upon a Time read for this Saturday. I thought last Saturday's Silverwing would have been my last. And what a fine final read that turned out to be.

Charmed by Once Upon a Time?2014-03-09T15:56:56-04:00

Joan Barfoot’s Dancing in the Dark (1982)

2014-03-09T15:55:22-04:00

Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark Macmillan, 1982 (not the image shown) When I re-read Abra earlier this month, I mentioned that it felt both quiet and revolutionary at the same time. The narrator's self-discovery is relayed through the filter of memory, and the bulk of the action is internal,

Joan Barfoot’s Dancing in the Dark (1982)2014-03-09T15:55:22-04:00

Egregious errors and great gaps?!

2014-03-09T15:53:34-04:00

David Stouck's Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography UTP, 2003 Here is what David Stouck wrote about Mary McAlpine's book about Ethel Wilson's life: "When I read the book I was aware of egregious errors and great gaps in the life. In the opinion of many reviewers, the book was poorly

Egregious errors and great gaps?!2014-03-09T15:53:34-04:00

Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads (2003)

2021-02-01T11:28:24-05:00

Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads Warner Books, 2003 Reading Nalo Hopkinson’s work makes me stretch. I don’t mean that literally: I pretzel myself to avoid interruption so I can read just one more story, just one more chapter, really, just one more page. But even when my legs are wedged

Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads (2003)2021-02-01T11:28:24-05:00
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