Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist (2014)

2014-10-07T13:46:53-04:00

It doesn’t get much more obvious than stacking these truths on the book jacket: there it is. Knopf Canada, 2014 The Confabulist Steven Galloway For even though the noun more commonly associated with ‘confabulate’ is ‘confabulation’, what is most important here is not the story itself but the

Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist (2014)2014-10-07T13:46:53-04:00

This One Summer: A True Favourite

2014-07-31T12:57:31-04:00

These sentences are dappled across a two-page spread of Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer (2014), as though they are wafts of milkweed ink: House of Anansi, 2014 “The first time I ever saw a milkweed was on the beach at Awago. I thought they were magic

This One Summer: A True Favourite2014-07-31T12:57:31-04:00

June/July 2014, In My Reading Log

2020-10-19T11:14:58-04:00

Days and days throughout this July have contained book after book after book: a swell of print. From graphic novels (revisiting the Game of Thrones saga in this medium) to short stories (lots of those!), from memoirs (I’ve just finished Zarqa Nawaz’s Laughing All the Way to the Mosque) to

June/July 2014, In My Reading Log2020-10-19T11:14:58-04:00

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)

2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00

Sometimes a stack of reading goes stale. For no good reason. You know what I mean. Maybe you're just bored with the covers. Or you've been teasing the books along with a page here and there, when they needed some quality one-on-one time. That's where I was with my stack,

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00

Megan Abbott’s The Fever (2014)

2014-06-17T12:37:20-04:00

Paradoxically, the phenomenon in The Fever has a chilling effect on characters and readers alike. The girls fall to the ground, one after the next; they writhe and tensions rise but blood is chilled. Little Brown & Company, 2014 “As Deenie walked out, a coolness began to sink

Megan Abbott’s The Fever (2014)2014-06-17T12:37:20-04:00
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