Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Last fall, a phrase from something I read — I thought it might have been from Ondaatje’s Divisadero, but couldn’t find it on a quick skim through; perhaps it’s in Anne Michaels’The Winter Vault —…
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Penelope Lively’s Family Album
Sigh! Here I am again, playing catch-up. Penelope Lively’s Family Album. Incisive sketch of a family from numerous perspectives. A technique that’s been often used, of course, but Lively is a master and it’s marvellous…
View PostStarting the New Year off with Atwood and mystery and memoir . . .
First novel of 2010? Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, about which I think Puttermeister has pretty much articulated what I would say about the book(and she adds some interesting commentary about her longstanding…
View PostWhat I Read in 2009
Near the end of last term, I posed the same question to each of my three sections of 1st-year University Composition. We’d been discussing Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You throughout the term,…
View PostFinishing the Year: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Patricia Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor
Oh dear! Once again, I am woefully behind in recording my reading. At the moment, I’m reading Penelope Lively’s The Family Album, having finished Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood as my first 2010…
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