Sebald’s Emigrants
When I began this blog, it was primarily intended as a commitment to myself to take time to record and, hopefully, to reflect on my reading rather than simply to chomp through pages that I…
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A Trio of Mysteries
Now that classes have started, it’s less and less likely that I’ll ever get round to writing anything more than a mention of my most recent reading — in the last few weeks of summer,…
View PostThoughts on Knitting Inefficiency
I posted this over here, but also want it here as part of the record of my reading. Sorry for the duplication: Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay…
View PostThat Summer in Paris
Fiction-writing often seems to be a ventriloquist’s game, the writingwriter throwing a voice into a narrator with varying degrees of credibility. Perhaps as with ventiloquism, we are swayed to find the act more convincing if…
View PostA Trio of Girls and Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans
I had hoped to write about Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, but one of my daughters (who counts Toews’ A Complicated Kindness among her favourites) has borrowed it. Without pages to turn, passages to look…
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