Thoughts on Knitting Inefficiency
I posted this over here, but also want it here as part of the record of my reading. Sorry for the duplication: Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay…
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That Summer in Paris
Fiction-writing often seems to be a ventriloquist’s game, the writingwriter throwing a voice into a narrator with varying degrees of credibility. Perhaps as with ventiloquism, we are swayed to find the act more convincing if…
View PostA Trio of Girls and Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans
I had hoped to write about Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, but one of my daughters (who counts Toews’ A Complicated Kindness among her favourites) has borrowed it. Without pages to turn, passages to look…
View PostDavid Adams Richards speaks out
Today’s Globe and Mail includes an adapted excerpt from David Adams Richards’ new book, God Is, an excerpt that I think is important, controversial, and well worth reading. The headline for the essay suggests its…
View PostBest-sellers I’m Not Sold on
I’ve almost forgotten to mention that I recently read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luis Zafon after reading several enthusiastic references. I ordered it thinking it would be the perfect summer escape reading —…
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