Kate Taylor’s Serial Monogamy (2016)

2024-05-31T18:58:51-04:00

"My books aren’t romances per se; they don’t even necessarily feature happy endings any more, they just conclude with hopeful moments that allow the reader to decide whether widows have the strength to go on or divorced dads find love for a second time." And there is nothing romantic about the

Kate Taylor’s Serial Monogamy (2016)2024-05-31T18:58:51-04:00

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
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