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I’m usually rather serious. As when discussing books like Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, and Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Spiral. (Yes, I have a thing for Michaels.) But I can also be silly. (As in “Dear Public Library”.)
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A Voracious Enthusiast
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About the pages that I’ve been turning
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Fresh bookishness!
Mini Update Sticky Post: November 28, 2024 If you're looking to catch up? Check out my reflections on 2023's reading, and plans for 2024. All year I've been
Margaret Atwood Reading Month, Wrap-Up #MARM2024
It happened: it snowed. The small lakes are still mostly open water, but you can see where people have thrown bits of snow near the shorelines, to
Margaret Atwood’s “Giving Birth” and “Bad Teeth” #MARM2024
When I started reading some of the stories in Dancing Girls for MARM in 2021, I was between short story projects and the idea of focussing on
Novellas in November 2024 #NovNov #NovNov24
When I think about novellas I’ve enjoyed this year, I recall Poulomi Sanyal’s Colour Me Confounded (2017) and Kerry Trautman’s Irregulars (2023), their settings soaked with the
Week Four: Update and Check-In #MARM2024
Can you believe this is the last check-in of this year’s MARM? The temperatures have steadily dropped all month and just the past two mornings, instead of
Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood, “Impatient Griselda” #MARM2024
“Impatient Griselda” is just seven pages long and there are a couple of full readings on YouTube (about a dozen minutes). If you want to hear it
Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls, “Dancing Girls” #MARM2024
Happy 85th birthday to Margaret Atwood! I wonder what she thought being 85 would be like when she wrote the title story of her first collection, Dancing
Week Three: Update and Check-In #MARM2024
Has anyone else read “Ariadne Sends a Message,” an Atwood poem from Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023 shared on Lithub last month? See how easy
Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood, “The Dead Interview” #MARM2024
The title of this story reminded me of both “The Last Interview” series and the Proust Questionnaire—as it has been broadcast in CBC’s “The Next Chapter” with
Reader and Writer
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