Two Female Sleuths and a Cello Suite!
I’ve made the most of no-marking weekends lately — that’s the end of them for a while, so I’m glad I did. Some good escape reading: Alan Bradley’s Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.…
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Richards, Wagamese, and Rankin
Just time to record a few titles. First, David Adams Richards’ The Lost Highway — the man can write! His novels are always dense and always verging on the grotesque, either through particular characters or…
View PostToni 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 —…
View PostPenelope 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…
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