Two Fiction, Two Non-Fiction, and One In-Between #LoveYourLibrary

2024-10-03T13:29:18-04:00

A little time has passed since I took this photograph but, already, there are more leaves off the trees and on the ground. It’s been rather warm, but early in September, two nights fell to “frost warning” temperatures, and that’s had an impact. The chipmunks don’t have time to

Two Fiction, Two Non-Fiction, and One In-Between #LoveYourLibrary2024-10-03T13:29:18-04:00

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (4 of 4)

2021-12-08T21:29:25-05:00

Last year, I was inspired by a local artist’s desk calendar to explore a series of cities in my reading. This year I’ve been exploring migration and lives in motion: often involuntary, frequently devastating, sometimes inspiring. This sense of between-ness reminds me of this passage in a 2021 debut

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (4 of 4)2021-12-08T21:29:25-05:00

Here and Elsewhere: Copenhagen

2020-06-02T07:36:48-04:00

It’s easy to allow one’s world to get smaller, when one is overwhelmed by some of the sadness and struggle in this world; the opposite is also true, that it’s easy to expand your world under the same set of circumstances. A random spark, like this desk calendar by

Here and Elsewhere: Copenhagen2020-06-02T07:36:48-04:00

David Chariandy’s Brother (2017)

2018-08-14T15:23:22-04:00

Though set further north of the bluffs, David Chariandy's follow-up to his debut Soucouyant is every bit as family-soaked, its losses and sorrows cast against a remarkable and enduring landscape. In Brother, Michael introduces readers to the Rouge Valley, to his mother and to the memory of his brother

David Chariandy’s Brother (2017)2018-08-14T15:23:22-04:00

May 2016, In My Stacks

2023-10-04T14:55:41-04:00

How much of your reading is non-fiction? Does it fluctuate, or are you committed to reading (or not reading) it? When others were participating in non-fiction November last year, and actually reading a lot of the books that I'd been kinda-half-sorta thinking about reading, I realised that tending towards fiction

May 2016, In My Stacks2023-10-04T14:55:41-04:00
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