August 2014, In My Reading Log

2024-05-09T11:59:34-04:00

Although I always have a small stack of books underway, I have carried to extremes this act of multi-booking this summer. Yesterday I finished Michael Crummey’s new novel (Sweetland), Alison Wearing’s memoir (Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter), Jan Zwicky’s poetry collection, the second volume in the Fruits Basket manga series,

August 2014, In My Reading Log2024-05-09T11:59:34-04:00

84: Best Canadian Stories (Edited by David Helwig and Sandra Martin)

2014-07-30T16:35:06-04:00

These stories were chosen “to be read rather than merely admired, or even envied”, including five previously unpublished stories. Thirty years later, the list of contents conjures up echoes of the Giller Prize, Canada Reads, and even a Pulitzer. Frances Itani’s “Grandmother” “And she has long known what the rest of

84: Best Canadian Stories (Edited by David Helwig and Sandra Martin)2014-07-30T16:35:06-04:00

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (II)

2014-07-23T07:13:42-04:00

Choosing a stack based on whimsy rather than duty urged me to binge on these books with enthusiasm. The afternoon heat was held at bay by good stories and an assortment of drinks (often rum with some sort of fruit juice, from tangerine to strawberry, lemon to cherry). And without

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (II)2014-07-23T07:13:42-04:00

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)

2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00

Sometimes a stack of reading goes stale. For no good reason. You know what I mean. Maybe you're just bored with the covers. Or you've been teasing the books along with a page here and there, when they needed some quality one-on-one time. That's where I was with my stack,

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00

Quarterly Stories: Summer 2014

2014-07-18T08:58:06-04:00

Coming Home: Stories from the Northwest Territories (Enfield & Wizenty, 2012) In the foreword, Richard Van Camp writes that this collection is a "testament to the beauty of the land, the communities and the people who choose to live here" and he welcomes readers to the works. The same words might

Quarterly Stories: Summer 20142014-07-18T08:58:06-04:00
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