The Mysteries of Escape Reading
In some ways, I’d have to admit that I have commodified (even commoditized, ugly though that word may be) my reading — that is, my paycheque is based on my ability to analyse my reading…
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Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park
I’ve just finished re-reading Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park in preparation for teaching it after our reading break. It’s been six or seven years since I first/last read it, and I was pleased, but not surprised,…
View PostDerrida’s Delightful Difficulty — and other reading . . .
For my Literary Theory group (a reading group of colleagues from my department), I read Derrida’s essay, “Economimesis” over the past week in preparation for a visiting speaker’s talk Friday afternoon — very challenging and…
View PostBill Gaston’s Sointula, Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn Skirt and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life
Quite a few posts back, Mardel commented that she was reading a book set in what she realized must be my homeplace, Nanaimo. I was a bit surprised to learn that, as Bill Gaston, while…
View PostLanguage exploration in Edeet Ravel’s Ten Thousand Lovers
I hope I’ll get a chance soon to write about my most recent reading: Bill Gaston’s Sointula as my “fun, own-choice” reading (with an extra bit of inspiration from Mardel) and Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn…
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