Feisty orphans: gotta love them

2014-02-27T17:32:35-05:00

This Saturday marks the beginning of a series of Saturdays devoted to Shelf-Discovery reads, or Shelf-Discovery-inspired reads. I joined the actual Challenge late, else there would have been more Saturdays filled with nostalgic re-reading of kidlit heretofore. But better re-read later than never to have read at all. This Saturday

Feisty orphans: gotta love them2014-02-27T17:32:35-05:00

The smell of chalkboard dust and soil

2014-03-09T12:46:03-04:00

Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge   Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925) This feels, to me, like the quintessentially Canadian novel, the sort that I can imagine being assigned by English teachers (well, except for a couple of scenes that would have undoubtedly ruffled

The smell of chalkboard dust and soil2014-03-09T12:46:03-04:00

Re-discovering Di Brandt’s poetry

2024-09-03T11:56:03-04:00

Di Brandt's Speaking of Power (2006) I came across Di Brandt's work shortly after university when I was finally able to read what I wanted to read from the library shelves, my trusty alumnus card in hand, borrowing from the HQs and PRs like nobody's business. This was in the

Re-discovering Di Brandt’s poetry2024-09-03T11:56:03-04:00

In my imagination, I was wearing a tutu

2014-03-09T18:35:44-04:00

Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes (1936) Bonnie and Paul Zindel's A Star for the Latecomer (1980) I wanted to be a ballerina when I grew up. My best friend and I practiced the five positions (complete with leaping and twirling in and out of them) on the couch in her family

In my imagination, I was wearing a tutu2014-03-09T18:35:44-04:00

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
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