A romance can pull me through even a long classic which isn't holding my attention otherwise. This is what got me through Vanity Fair. And of all the chunksters on my shelves, I might stall in some, but I sailed through Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale (even though the romance is largely confined
Much of my reading this year has been preoccupied with writing. I've been reading about how Laura Ingalls Wilder's notebooks and autobiographical writing worked their way into fiction for young readers (Pioneer Girl). Robin Robertson edited Mortification, in which writers discuss work-related embarrassments, often unfolding as they were travelling for readings and public
Having read through the first quarter of the reading year, how are your stacks? Reading projects Is the bedside stack turning over regularly? Are you struggling to stick with projects that you were sure would fit perfectly into 2016? Four books in this stack are from various TBR lists, some because
"Do you remember, Big Sister, all those good times? In Cousin Chan's abandoned house right in the middle of our neighbourhood, a dozen or so girls lying together, cooking together, working the fields, laughing and gissipping the entire day." The excerpt from this letter, from Fong Mei in March 1919,
My reading resolutions for this year revolve around a set of too-long-unread books. Many of which were too-long-unread because they are long and complicated. Like Marge Piercy's Gone to Soldiers and Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes, which I have been leaving at home, while these slimmer volumes have been
