Summer 2021, In My Bookbag (What bookbag?)

2021-08-25T11:28:12-04:00

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. Mungi

Summer 2021, In My Bookbag (What bookbag?)2021-08-25T11:28:12-04:00

Summer 2021: In My Stacks

2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

I’ve been to the islands in my summer reading this year: Norwegian, Atlantic Canadian, Jamaican, Greenlandian and Sri Lankan. Roy Jacobsen’s Ingrid trilogy landed in my stack thanks to a reading copy of White Shadow from Biblioasis, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. Partly because I liked the

Summer 2021: In My Stacks2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (3 of 4)

2024-08-20T09:18:39-04:00

The climate crisis erupts regularly in my reading, in unexpected ways. In Natsumi Hoshino’s manga series for children, Plum Crazy, named for the household’s first cat, even the cats heard a news report and pawed at the light switches to reduce their energy consumption. (My laugh came out more

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (3 of 4)2024-08-20T09:18:39-04:00

#ReadIndigenous Elissa Washuta and Jordan Abel

2021-07-01T14:27:33-04:00

Elissa Washuta’s White Magic (2021) is a personal narrative of searching and locating boundaries about her own self amid the context of colonization. (She is a member of the Cowlitz tribe.) Her writing is considered experimental but it passes for conventional prose at first glance; much of her

#ReadIndigenous Elissa Washuta and Jordan Abel2021-07-01T14:27:33-04:00
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