Bookish Books

Re-discovering Di Brandt’s prose

Buried In Print2014-07-11T15:58:43-04:00

Di Brandt's So this is the World and here I am in it (2007) Imagine my excitement in picking up Di Brandt's So this is the world and here I am in it (2007) for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge and discovering that not only was one of my earlier

Re-discovering Di Brandt’s proseBuried In Print2014-07-11T15:58:43-04:00

Dorothy Livesay’s Journey with My Selves 1909-1963 (1991) Part II of II

Buried In Print2014-07-11T15:58:56-04:00

One of the things that I love most of all about reading memoirs, journals and letters (of literary figures, especially, because they tend to read so much, but of anybody really) is taking note of what the writer is reading. This was particularly interesting in reading Journey with My Selves

Dorothy Livesay’s Journey with My Selves 1909-1963 (1991) Part II of IIBuried In Print2014-07-11T15:58:56-04:00

Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005)

Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:50:53-04:00

You know how sometimes you open up a book and start reading and you just luh-huh-huv it? And how when you really weren’t expecting anything to start with, and then you find yourself completely smitten, it just adds fuel to the infatuation? Even though you realize that part of your

Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005)Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:50:53-04:00