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2017 Reading List

2017 Reading List

Three weeks into 2018, it’s past time to publish my 2017 Reading List, incomplete and unsatisfactory as it may be. As you’ve surely noticed, I grumble regularly about my poor performance in these posts, frustrated…

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Alchemists and Rebels and Bees, Oh-My! Cynthea Masson’s The Flaw in the Stone

Alchemists and Rebels and Bees, Oh-My! Cynthea Masson’s The Flaw in the Stone

I’m running behind, obviously, on posting about books read this year, and now I’m running for the airport. But I have been so fortunate in reading books written by friends lately (read this post to…

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The Halifax Explosion — Alison Watt’s fictional rendering, 100 years later

The Halifax Explosion — Alison Watt’s fictional rendering, 100 years later

Currently pretty distracted with trying to get ready for Friday’s flight, but today is the 100th anniversary of the Halifax explosion, and I can’t bear to let the day go by without telling you about…

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Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Extra-ordinary Poems

Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Extra-ordinary Poems

Regularly these days, if I’m reading while I’m out somewhere, no post-it notes or notebook handy when I come across a passage that I want to come back to later, I’ll snap a photo of…

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An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

I’d make my apologies for the lapse since last posting, but by now, this is what you’ve come to expect here. My mother used to insist that an apology was only as good as the…

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