What I Read in 2009
Near the end of last term, I posed the same question to each of my three sections of 1st-year University Composition. We’d been discussing Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You throughout the term,…
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Zebra Shoes — Dramatic? Disastrous?
I bought these shoes late last spring (at my local boutique, aptly called From A to Zebra), but I have only worn them once or twice since. While the impulse that moved me to get…
View PostGood-bye Kate . . .
Another stellar Canadian woman gone, another massive loss to our cultural life. Kate McGarrigle has died. I’m off to listen to Matapedia, and then perhaps to move on to listening to some Martha and some…
View PostOlympic viewing . . .
Years ago, looking on-line for some background on Dionne Brand in preparation for teaching one or other of her poems, I found this little gem: #30, it’s apparently titled, from her Winter Epigrams. I adopted…
View PostFinishing the Year: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Patricia Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor
Oh dear! Once again, I am woefully behind in recording my reading. At the moment, I’m reading Penelope Lively’s The Family Album, having finished Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood as my first 2010…
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