Materfamilias Writes

Edeet Ravel’s Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth

Edeet 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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Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog

Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog

First book of the year was Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog — title rivals Atkinson’s last Jackson Brodie novel, When Will There Be Good News. I’m such a fan of this series (four…

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2010 Reading List

2010 Reading List

In case it’s not obvious, clicking on the book titles will bring you to my post mentioning or responding to the book, except in the case of the unblogged titles at the end of the…

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Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here” has long been one of my favourite stories, so when her new novel was published, I was eager to read it. It doesn’t…

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Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown

Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown

I do a fair bit of reading while riding the ferry to town in the morning and back home in the evening, even carrying a small light in my bag against the dark of winter…

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