Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth (2013)

2022-02-07T15:00:02-05:00

In bookish synchronicity, when a friend and I met one summer morning to go book-shopping, each of us had begun reading A Beautiful Truth the previous evening. We had both read only about 50 pages, so were hesitant to commit to loving it too soon, but we shared that excitement

Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth (2013)2022-02-07T15:00:02-05:00

Michael Hingston’s The Dilettantes (2013)

2014-07-11T16:41:05-04:00

Perhaps Michael Hingston, like Alex, "wanted to find a way to make the culture sit still, even for a minute, so he could find a way to enjoy it for a little while longer". Freehand Books, 2013 The Dilettantes presses campus life between its pages. It makes it

Michael Hingston’s The Dilettantes (2013)2014-07-11T16:41:05-04:00

Wayne Grady’s Emancipation Day (2013)

2021-07-02T16:34:25-04:00

The reader of Wayne Grady's first novel is held in as careful an embrace as the woman in the dancing couple on Emancipation Day's cover. Doubleday Canada - Random House Canada 2013 There is a sense that each word of the story has been chosen deliberately, even without

Wayne Grady’s Emancipation Day (2013)2021-07-02T16:34:25-04:00

“Carried Away” Alice Munro

2014-03-31T15:57:28-04:00

Could be that "Carried Away" is my favourite Alice Munro story. 1994; Penguin, 1999 Not only because Louisa is a librarian. (But that certainly helps.) "The Librarian’s desk was in the archway between the front and back rooms. The books were on shelves set in rows in the

“Carried Away” Alice Munro2014-03-31T15:57:28-04:00

Lydia Perović’s Incidental Music (2012)

2020-10-22T12:23:11-04:00

Romola sang soprano, but perhaps an opera singer's life after she has retired is, by definition, incidental music. Or, perhaps the fragments of memory that swell and break for a 70-something woman living with dementia are incidental music. Or, the lost love she half-recalls? Maybe that is incidental. Inanna

Lydia Perović’s Incidental Music (2012)2020-10-22T12:23:11-04:00
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