Persephone: Why Hetty Dorval?

2014-02-27T16:14:52-05:00

1949; New Canadian Library 1990 I don’t really need an answer to the question I’ve posed. I understand why Persephone would have chosen to print Hetty Dorval over The Innocent Traveller: Ethel Wilson’s first book is certainly a striking work and brings to mind other brilliant novellas (e.g.

Persephone: Why Hetty Dorval?2014-02-27T16:14:52-05:00

Getting to know the author Elizabeth Smart

2014-02-27T16:00:34-05:00

Elizabeth Smart’s Autobiographies (1987) I vividly recall my first attempt at By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept; I read about one page and set it aside because I’d been looking for a quick read. Despite its slim form, Elizabeth Smart’s work is the sort that, for me,

Getting to know the author Elizabeth Smart2014-02-27T16:00:34-05:00

Ongoing saga of Shelf Discovery

2014-03-09T12:23:28-04:00

I really hadn’t planned to re-read more than one of Lois Duncan’s novels for the Shelf Discovery Reading Challenge but I enjoyed Down a Dark Hall so much that I re-considered. I was really expecting it to feel more dated (and maybe it would have if I wasn’t approaching it

Ongoing saga of Shelf Discovery2014-03-09T12:23:28-04:00

Dorothy Livesay’s Journey with My Selves 1909-1963 (1991) Part II of II

2014-07-11T15:58:56-04:00

One of the things that I love most of all about reading memoirs, journals and letters (of literary figures, especially, because they tend to read so much, but of anybody really) is taking note of what the writer is reading. This was particularly interesting in reading Journey with My Selves

Dorothy Livesay’s Journey with My Selves 1909-1963 (1991) Part II of II2014-07-11T15:58:56-04:00

Margaret Atwood’s Moving Targets (2005)

2014-02-27T15:52:26-05:00

Just browsing through the table of contents of this essay collection might lead you to believe that it was penned by a feminist. Depending how you define feminist, of course. Certainly Atwood is as willing to consider works by Toni Morrison, Carol Shields, Angela Carter and Hilary Mantel as she

Margaret Atwood’s Moving Targets (2005)2014-02-27T15:52:26-05:00
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