Winter 2024, In My Reading Log

2024-04-03T16:09:39-04:00

My reading this year has a different rhythm. Some year-long projects require only a few pages of reading each week, a chapter maybe. In contrast, reading for work requires bursting through backlists in a week or two. In between, some books have sprawled in that territory between lackadaisical and

Winter 2024, In My Reading Log2024-04-03T16:09:39-04:00

Five Canadian Books: #CanadaReads 2024

2024-03-04T09:18:06-05:00

This morning, the 23rd edition of Canada Reads program launches. I’ve missed the voice of a career writer in the program in recent years and now, with Heather O’Neill’s inclusion (whose Lullaby for Little Criminals was a previous Canada Reads winner) as a champion, my affection for the program’s

Five Canadian Books: #CanadaReads 20242024-03-04T09:18:06-05:00

Margaret Atwood Reading Month: #MARM Week Five, 2021

2021-11-30T11:09:53-05:00

A couple of people chose to read Hag-Seed for MARM this year, which reminded me of this discussion (which you can view, alongside) from the 2018 Stratford Festival Forum: In Conversation With Margaret Atwood—“The award-winning Canadian author, essayist, poet and activist returns to the Forum for a candid conversation

Margaret Atwood Reading Month: #MARM Week Five, 20212021-11-30T11:09:53-05:00

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (2 of 4)

2021-06-10T11:40:33-04:00

During the past year, I’ve read sixty-three books, fiction and non-fiction, related to the climate crisis. Just this week, I finished Katłįà's (Catherine Lafferty's) 2020 novel Ndè-ti-yat’a (Land-Water-Sky)--an unstoppable read. Maybe this new habit has an element of contagion: have I convinced you to read one? Earlier in 2021,

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (2 of 4)2021-06-10T11:40:33-04:00

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (1 of 4)

2021-05-26T10:26:11-04:00

In Daisy Hildyard’s The Second Body, she shares this admission: “In a technical way, I believe in climate change, but I do not much act as if I do. (I take flights.) I don’t really inhabit it. I have never bought a book with Climate Change in the title

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (1 of 4)2021-05-26T10:26:11-04:00
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