Countdown: Magie Dominic and Ann-Marie MacDonald

2020-10-22T12:22:08-04:00

With chapters named for the days of the week in Street Angel and with specific dates in a given week in Adult Onset, these two novels seem to make ideal reading companions. Ultimately, much of literary fiction is preoccupied with time. Whether it is Molly Bloom's day in James Joyce's

Countdown: Magie Dominic and Ann-Marie MacDonald2020-10-22T12:22:08-04:00

December 2014: In My Reading Log

2021-02-01T10:44:38-05:00

Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods (2014) Comprised of five long and two short works, these tales are peopled with losses and lonelinesses. Hues of red, black and white dominate the volume, with other colours used sparingly for contrast. Panel use is unpredictable, with images sometimes boxed but often sprawling and

December 2014: In My Reading Log2021-02-01T10:44:38-05:00

Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a Memoir

2024-08-22T13:24:54-04:00

Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed and Maurice Mierau's Detachment: An Adoption Memoir are a perfect pair. Penguin Random House, 2014 And the Mountains Echoed begins with a story, told by a father to his son and his daughter. "Father never felt more present to Abdullah, more vibrant, revealed,

Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a Memoir2024-08-22T13:24:54-04:00

Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013) and The Silkworm (2014)

2014-12-19T17:44:16-05:00

Readers are introduced to Cormoran Strike in a moment of need. His. “A double fee. Strike’s conscience, once firm and inelastic, had been weakened by repeated blows of fate; this was the knockout punch. His baser self was already gamboling off into the realms of happy speculation: a month’s work

Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013) and The Silkworm (2014)2014-12-19T17:44:16-05:00

Daughters, Mothers: Half-Formed and Otherwise

2014-09-30T18:27:34-04:00

Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (2014) Reading. Then Not. Simon & Schuster, 2014 Sharp sentences. Jabbing thoughts. Unkindnesses bearing down. Book, set aside. Pause. And here is where the experience of reading A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing may end for many readers. Some, however,

Daughters, Mothers: Half-Formed and Otherwise2014-09-30T18:27:34-04:00
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