January Reading
In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…
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André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs
I know, I know, I know. I made promises I’m not keeping here, but life’s a bit busy right now, and the va-et-vient means that sometimes the books I’d like to write about are not…
View PostReading for Work
Much of the reading I’ve done so far this year has been work-related. I read an edited anthology of essays on West Coast writing in order to review the book (Making Waves: Reading BC and…
View PostLet the Great World Spin
The year’s almost done, and I have a huge stack of books I want to get to before the new term begins. The next few posts will be sad references to titles that deserve much…
View PostEdeet Ravel’s Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth
Isn’t that a sumptuously melancholy title? So indulgent . . . And yet the novel doesn’t wallow in melancholy nor nostalgia, rather examining the past, remembering a bright adolescent Jewish lesbian girl’s coming-of-age in 1970s…
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