Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2024 #MARM2024

2024-11-14T12:46:04-05:00

Happy MARM to everyone who’s reading this post! From Friday, November 1st to Saturday, November 30th it’s Margaret Atwood Reading Month, and you’re invited! (And, don’t forget, the 18th is Margaret Atwood’s 84th birthday. Cake, anyone? I mean, EVERYone?) Read or watch one thing, read or watch everyday, or

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Black Cake and Serial Killers, Imprisonment and Pilgrimages #LoveYourLibrary

2024-10-28T16:28:21-04:00

Not that anyone reading this needs convincing, about how diverse the offerings are on library shelves, but just imagine the dramatically different reading moods each of these four books requires! All of these books were already on my TBR, but the Toronto Public Library Reading Challenge gave me the

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Mavis Gallant’s A Fairly Good Time #1970Club

2024-10-18T17:24:59-04:00

What a delight to be invited to the #1970Club party and to bring Mavis Gallant as my guest. The quintessential short story writer published her novel A Fairly Good Time in 1970. The first chapter is a letter from Shirley Perrigny’s mother, a slippery few pages that spill from

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The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024

2024-10-15T10:44:25-04:00

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction lodged in my mind because I really loved its inaugural winner: Kadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust when I first read it. Bill and I read it again earlier this year, while anticipating the announcement of this year’s shortlisted books.

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 20242024-10-15T10:44:25-04:00

Two Classics, No Spins

2024-09-17T11:04:24-04:00

Whenever I see someone working on their Classics Spin projects, I wonder whether I would be more dedicated to this kind of reading if I approached it with a plan: of course I would be. But this isn’t much different than knowing it would be better to walk around

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