Materfamilias Writes

Too much sex? Stephen Henighan’s The Streets of Winter

Too much sex? Stephen Henighan’s The Streets of Winter

Got your attention? Thought I could risk a catchier title! Last week I re-read Stephen Henighan’s The Streets of Winter in preparation for teaching it in my 4th-year urban Canadian fiction class. Once again, noting…

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Reading for Pleasure — Richard Wagamese’s Ragged Company

Reading for Pleasure — Richard Wagamese’s Ragged Company

Today I was gifted with the mixed blessing of a March snow day. While this admittedly makes life a bit tougher in terms of getting ’round, and while it means we’ll be trudging through a…

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The Mysteries of Escape Reading

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

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,…

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Derrida’s Delightful Difficulty — and other reading . . .

Derrida’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…

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