More Marlon James. . .
Thanks again to Georgia for a post that has whetted my appetite for reading Elana Ferrante’s backlist. I’ve got Ferrante’s Neapolitan books piled up by my desktop computer waiting for me to be home long…
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This ‘n That — Catch-Up
This is the pile of Books-I-Have-Read-Recently-But-Not-Blogged-Yet. I think I’ve mentioned before that, in order to keep myself honest, book-blogging-wise, I don’t let myself put Books-I’ve-read away until I’ve at least made a note, here, of…
View PostKathleen Winter’s Annabel
I’m planning to write a post responding to Hope’s question (at this post) about how I found time to read while raising my children, and how I continue to structure pockets of reading time into…
View PostRichards, Wagamese, and Rankin
Just time to record a few titles. First, David Adams Richards’ The Lost Highway — the man can write! His novels are always dense and always verging on the grotesque, either through particular characters or…
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…
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