Late-Summer Reading: When and Where

2024-05-31T19:05:15-04:00

For the past couple of weeks, I have been listening to Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce on my daily walks. I was walking in full summer, listening to descriptions of winter in Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. The clusters of cloud in the story were from the exhaust of snowmobiles in

Late-Summer Reading: When and Where2024-05-31T19:05:15-04:00

How Much Happiness, Really

2024-05-31T19:07:12-04:00

Is it too much? Or, just enough. What am I to make of this final story in my Alice Munro reading project. (I read her last collection, Dear Life, in 2012.) While rereading Too Much Happiness, I was constantly aware of the references to being happy, to happiness, in the

How Much Happiness, Really2024-05-31T19:07:12-04:00

Joan Clark’s The Birthday Lunch (2015)

2017-07-24T14:19:17-04:00

The Birthday Lunch is the sort of novel in which a woman stands at a casement window and drinks a cup of tea, enjoying a private view of a cherry tree and an herb garden. It is a "quiet novel" and, yet, a story which is ultimately about the primary importance

Joan Clark’s The Birthday Lunch (2015)2017-07-24T14:19:17-04:00

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (4 of 4)

2024-04-04T09:44:24-04:00

Such good reading this summer, so far. In other respects, perhaps mine has not been the most productive summer. But it all depends what one puts on a to-do list, doesn't it! What if your to-do list was all about the books in your stacks? House of Anansi, 2015

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (4 of 4)2024-04-04T09:44:24-04:00

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (3 of 4)

2021-02-01T16:12:50-05:00

Such good reading this summer, so far. In other respects, perhaps mine has not been the most productive summer. But it all depends what one puts on a to-do list, doesn't it! What if your to-do list was all about the books in your stacks? Cormorant Books, 2015 For

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (3 of 4)2021-02-01T16:12:50-05:00
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