Reading Ananda Devi, #LoveYourLibrary

2025-04-01T10:21:35-04:00

Over the weekend, I’ve been reading Ananda Devi, recipient of the 2024 Neustadt Prize (which some call the American Nobel). Three of her books have made their way to me via various Ontario libraries this month: Eve Our of Her Ruins from Don Mills Library in Toronto, Manger L’Autre

Reading Ananda Devi, #LoveYourLibrary2025-04-01T10:21:35-04:00

Read Indies 2025: A Novella and an Epic, Mysteries and Verses, Matasha and a Manifesto

2025-03-26T13:43:37-04:00

Kaggsy’s and Lizzy’s fifth annual celebration of Indie publishers in the UK is a regular reminder to celebrate the independent voices in this industry. All month, I’ve been reading with this event in mind, and I am finishing just in time to contribute. (My first post was here. The

Read Indies 2025: A Novella and an Epic, Mysteries and Verses, Matasha and a Manifesto2025-03-26T13:43:37-04:00

A Long Bookish, Wintry Quotation from Italo Calvino

2025-03-26T13:12:25-04:00

This year I am trying to read more deliberately whimsically. Go ahead and giggle, I know it’s ridiculous. Over the course of a reading lifetime, I’ve allowed some reading habits that I enjoyed to fall away, like reading with the seasons in mind. Like resolving to read something

A Long Bookish, Wintry Quotation from Italo Calvino2025-03-26T13:12:25-04:00

Novellas in November 2024 #NovNov #NovNov24

2024-11-28T16:48:34-05:00

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 ambiance of their main characters’ workplaces, whether a boardroom or a diner. And I think about Helen deWitt’s The English Understand Wool

Novellas in November 2024 #NovNov #NovNov242024-11-28T16:48:34-05:00
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