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

Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2021 #MARM2021

2021-10-31T18:01:16-04:00

As anyone who participates in bookish events online knows, November is an exceptionally busy month for themed reading; if Margaret Atwood had been born in any other month, I’d’ve chosen another, but here we are. And, why choose Margaret Atwood as the subject of a reading event to begin

Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2021 #MARM20212021-10-31T18:01:16-04:00

Autumn 2021: In My Bookbag

2024-09-09T15:59:25-04:00

Here’s a glimpse of some recent reads which lend themselves more to sampling, in a handful of reading sessions, than gobbling in longer periods of time. Not the books which require a sink-into-your-seat focus, the ones which afford the opportunity to window-gaze between pages. Recently I’ve been missing a

Autumn 2021: In My Bookbag2024-09-09T15:59:25-04:00

Québécois Authors and Stories

2021-08-25T13:08:53-04:00

Recently I found an old New Canadian Library copy of Mordecai Richler’s second novel, Son of a Smaller Hero, originally published in 1955 (this copy a reprint from 1969), in a Little Free Library. When I find one of these tightly bound pocketbooks with their abstract, blotchy-arted covers second-hand,

Québécois Authors and Stories2021-08-25T13:08:53-04:00
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