Black Cake and Serial Killers, Imprisonment and Pilgrimages #LoveYourLibrary

2024-10-28T16:28:21-04:00

Not that anyone reading this needs convincing, about how diverse the offerings are on library shelves, but just imagine the dramatically different reading moods each of these four books requires! All of these books were already on my TBR, but the Toronto Public Library Reading Challenge gave me the

Black Cake and Serial Killers, Imprisonment and Pilgrimages #LoveYourLibrary2024-10-28T16:28:21-04:00

How One Book Leads to Another #LoveYourLibrary

2024-08-29T21:01:38-04:00

Sometimes I add a very specific book to my TBR list, complete with ISBN and the source of the recommendation or the reason for my curiosity. Sometimes there’s a name added to the list, with no context or details. That’s how it was with Dunya Mikhail, so I started

How One Book Leads to Another #LoveYourLibrary2024-08-29T21:01:38-04:00

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)

2024-07-25T10:19:11-04:00

Past the mid-point of the reading year, I notice that there are some books I finished reading some time ago, lingering. Just, around. Left in innocuous places as though I just finished reading them there. Finally, when I found a place for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel (on the shelf

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)2024-07-25T10:19:11-04:00

June 2024, In My Bookbag

2024-06-18T09:25:27-04:00

It occurred to me to keep The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu as a novella for November. But when I was rushing to leave the house one afternoon, and returned because I’d forgotten my wallet, I slipped TEoKN into my bag on a whim. So, naturally that’s what I read

June 2024, In My Bookbag2024-06-18T09:25:27-04:00

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
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