A Long Preamble — there will be Boots!
I’m going to try telling you a long story in order to tell you a short one — some of my dissatisfaction with my blog recently is that I so often abandon the stories I…
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The Enchantress of Florence
17 or 18 years ago, in an undergraduate course in Commonwealth Literature (otherwise known as post-colonial lit.), I first read Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. I’ll admit to finding it a hard slog, at first, densely…
View PostHappy New Year!
Thanks to those who commented so understandingly and encouragingly about my decision to stay off-line blog-wise. I’ll admit to missing this space and have even been compiling a list of movies I’ll happily recommend, but…
View PostJoseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce
I’m working on a post about Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault, but meanwhile, a quick catch-up (story of my blogging life, truly) toward wrapping up this year’s reading. First, Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce —…
View PostSome quiet time at Christmas
For a variety of reasons, I am feeling disinclined to blog here at the moment. I’m not sure how long I will feel this way, but I’ve decided to honour the feeling rather than fill…
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