Escape Reading: I love a good mystery!

While I’m working my way through Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, I realized last week that I needed a bit of pampering and escape to help me through all the marking. Generally, when I get to…

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Tanis MacDonald’s Rue the Day

I always, always, always have a book in my purse for filling up all those waiting minutes during the day and have done so for as far back as I can remember. It’s difficult for…

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Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer

Okay, classes are back in, which means I’m going to be using all spare time for preparing and then for marking. There won’t be much time for writing elaborate responses to my reading, but I…

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Sadhu Binning’s No More Watnu Dur

I’ve just finished reading Sadhu Binning’s book of poetry, No More Watnu Dur (watno dur is Punjabi for “far away from the mother land”), written in memory of the Indian passengers (British subjects all) of…

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