Lissa M. Cowan’s Milk Fever (2013)

2014-06-24T10:55:28-04:00

You might not guess from the cover of this debut novel that the epigraph would be drawn from Olympe de Gouges' "Declaration of the Rights of Women". Demeter Press, 2013 But one can be dressed in satin and lace and be a revolutionary, of course. As was Olympe

Lissa M. Cowan’s Milk Fever (2013)2014-06-24T10:55:28-04:00

Cary Fagan’s A Bird’s Eye (2013)

2022-02-02T19:27:06-05:00

Readers have an elevated view of the events in Cary Fagan's A Bird's Eye. "Over streets, over the buildings of the university with the zigzag pattern on their roofs, over the playing fields towards the downtown." And, yet, readers glimpse, in the opening chapters, all the characters necessary for an

Cary Fagan’s A Bird’s Eye (2013)2022-02-02T19:27:06-05:00

“Carried Away” Alice Munro

2014-03-31T15:57:28-04:00

Could be that "Carried Away" is my favourite Alice Munro story. 1994; Penguin, 1999 Not only because Louisa is a librarian. (But that certainly helps.) "The Librarian’s desk was in the archway between the front and back rooms. The books were on shelves set in rows in the

“Carried Away” Alice Munro2014-03-31T15:57:28-04:00

Meg Mitchell Moore’s So Far Away (2012)

2014-07-11T16:27:05-04:00

When I read this, I felt that little tingle you get, as a reader, when you think you've found a perfect match for your reading taste: Little Brown - Reagan Arthur Books, 2012 "It’s like pulling a thread that unravels and unravels. One loose thread, and you can

Meg Mitchell Moore’s So Far Away (2012)2014-07-11T16:27:05-04:00

Quote about libraries and reading

2014-03-17T16:10:57-04:00

"He generally took more books out of the library than he was able to read before they were due back. His charging records at the Boston Athenaeum, the Harvard College Library, and the Boston Society Library are not so much a measure of his intake as of his appetite. He

Quote about libraries and reading2014-03-17T16:10:57-04:00
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