Stephen King’s Finders Keepers (2015)

2017-07-20T17:41:28-04:00

A detective haunted by past cases left unresolved or unhappily resolved? This offers a terrific launching pad for storytelling. Pocket Books - S&S, 2016 Particularly when the detective is no longer in an official capacity and has more time on his hands to ruminate and regret. "There’s not a

Stephen King’s Finders Keepers (2015)2017-07-20T17:41:28-04:00

April 2016, In My Reading Log (Books on writing and Jhumpa Lahiri)

2016-04-22T08:25:54-04:00

Much of my reading this year has been preoccupied with writing. I've been reading about how Laura Ingalls Wilder's notebooks and autobiographical writing worked their way into fiction for young readers (Pioneer Girl). Robin Robertson edited Mortification, in which writers discuss work-related embarrassments, often unfolding as they were travelling for readings and public

April 2016, In My Reading Log (Books on writing and Jhumpa Lahiri)2016-04-22T08:25:54-04:00

I Spy with My CanLit Eye: Two Classics

2015-10-28T15:32:01-04:00

Our young separatist narrator is imagining his own future and the future of Quebec, and both man and nation are struggling with matters of expression and independence, in Hubert Aquin's Next Episode (published in 1965, translated by Sheila Fischman in 2001). “I am the fragmented symbol of Quebec’s revolution, its

I Spy with My CanLit Eye: Two Classics2015-10-28T15:32:01-04:00

Blanche Howard’s The Ice Maiden (2015)

2015-09-02T11:39:55-04:00

Please welcome back ReaderWoman, who has bookchatted here before, as part of the House of Anansi 45 reading celebration of indie presses and bookshops. (You can search for her posts using the tag GuestPost.) She has been reading (among other good things, which you can discover here) Blanche Howard's posthumously

Blanche Howard’s The Ice Maiden (2015)2015-09-02T11:39:55-04:00

On reading, at last, Rilla of Ingleside

2015-08-27T16:18:03-04:00

I can no longer claim that reading about grown-up Anne is boring, when that would clearly mean I, as a grown-up, must be boring too. So I have had to come up with other reasons to avoid reading the final Anne book. Knowing what a chore it was for LMM

On reading, at last, Rilla of Ingleside2015-08-27T16:18:03-04:00
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