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…
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First novel of 2010? Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, about which I think Puttermeister has pretty much articulated what I would say about the book(and she adds some interesting commentary about her longstanding…
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If I hadn’t read Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault immediately after reading Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero, would I have been so struck by what seem such strong stylistic similarities between the two writers? Perhaps not. Certainly,…
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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 —…
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We’ve had at least three days of Wind Warning here over the last week — blustery rain-filled days just made for staying inside and reading. I took advantage of a break between marking to read…
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