The reader is introduced to Colin's brother, Ross, when he's wearing both hats, cutting the lawn in front of the school, one of the hats being a floppy pink strawhat that his mother wore in the garden. He is viewed through the window, Colin and his work-mates on one side
Last year, on six weekends, I posed about being Buried in ReLit Print, sampling the novels, short stories and poetry (which is adventurous for me) on the longlists. The longlists for the 2012 ReLit Awards were announced last Tuesday and I began making my reading plans that morning. Several of
So, I printed out the names of the authors appearing at this year's International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto next month. Two pages, three columns: if it's a murder of crows, what does one call a big group of writers? Whatever you call it? That's what's in store
Deep breath. September will be filled with so many fantastic books. I say this with assurance, because check out the great reading below. R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril VII Details here September 1 - October 31 My reading list and over-the-top plans and dreams here Readalong of The Little Stranger details are
This is how it begins. "Sometimes in the long summer's evenings, which are so marked a part of our youth, Harriet and Vesey played hide-and-seek with the younger children, running across the tufted meadows, their shoes yellow with the pollen of buttercups." Both the novel, and the story of Harriet's
