Oh, The Kappa Child: read it!

2014-03-17T16:58:17-04:00

Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Red Deer Press, 2001 The Kappa Child is definitely the Hiromi Goto novel that I'll be recommending most often, although I'm starting to get the feeling that this author is going to be of the sort that I enjoy so solidly that I end up

Oh, The Kappa Child: read it!2014-03-17T16:58:17-04:00

Reading Like A Country Cat

2014-03-09T14:36:51-04:00

Ethel Wilson's Stories, Essays and Letters, Ed. David Stouck U of BC Press, 1987 If you are keenly interested in Ethel Wilson, you will definitely appreciate this volume, which does gather nine stories not published in her Mrs. Golightly collection, six essays, and selected correspondence from 1944 through 1974. And,

Reading Like A Country Cat2014-03-09T14:36:51-04:00

Another reader might love this

2014-03-09T14:35:52-04:00

Nobody was waiting for Clare Clark's Savage Lands when I initially borrowed it from the library, having requested it weeks ahead when the Orange Prize longlist had been announced. So I was really surprised when it came time to renew it and I found that it had a hold queue,

Another reader might love this2014-03-09T14:35:52-04:00

Good guesses about Ethel Wilson

2014-03-31T15:49:55-04:00

Mary McAlpine's The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson Harbour Publishing, 1988 I came across this bit in David Stouck's biography before I even had a copy of Mary McAlpine's book in my hands and it raised a string of questions that niggled and nagged until I

Good guesses about Ethel Wilson2014-03-31T15:49:55-04:00

Out of the root cellar and onto your TBR list

2014-03-09T14:28:28-04:00

Click the beautiful image for the Challenge Site Hiromi Goto's The Water of Possibility Coteau Books, 2002 A few weeks ago, I re-read Janet Lunn's 1981 children's novel The Root Cellar. In her novel, the root cellar is a portal to another time and Rose's travels through it

Out of the root cellar and onto your TBR list2014-03-09T14:28:28-04:00
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