Having felt bookishly starved in 2009 and rather over-stuffed in 2010, it's taken me some time to plan the menu for my 2011 reading year. Then, this past week, I tested the seasoning, to see if this blend of eleven ingredients will be the perfect sort of bookishness that I’ve
As November's reads settle out, the 2010's reading challenges fall into line, and in quiet moments I am reflecting on the reading year and making bookish plans for 2011. You know how it is? How many bookish promises we readers make to ourselves, before the reader's fickle gaze shifts to
The IFOA, International Festival of Authors, is an annual event in Toronto for the bookish. Warning: if you don't live in Toronto, you might not want to check out their line-up unless you're prepared to book transportation and purchase memberships and whole backlists to boot. It's not that much of
As I have finished my last read for the Canadian Reading Challenge 3, my reading thoughts have turned to Canlit to read for the coming year. I've been long thinking of Hugh Hood's New Age Cycle, a 12-volume novel sequence that was apparently inspired by the novel sequences of Proust
I'm so incredibly excited about Persephone Reading Week that I think I'll need to take the week off work to celebrate it properly. That was a temptation when I first heard about the event, and I started thinking "themes" and then spotted a collection of films about wartime England at
