Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor This book was recommended to me by Don at Uncle Bardie's Stories & Such. And I am very grateful. A few years ago, I read Trevor's Love and Summer, which I thought was good but not quite enough to send me running to read more of his books. … Continue reading A Round-Up of Short Works: William Trevor, Robert J. Wiersema, and Lawrence Hill
Category: Other Books
Literary Wives: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Every other month, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? Don’t forget to check out the other members of Literary … Continue reading Literary Wives: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Reading Ireland Month: Donal Ryan
I always have so much fun choosing books for Reading Ireland Month, but then never seem to have enough time to fit them all in. Two years ago (already!) I was the lucky winner of Cathy's giveaway for A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan, and had planned to read it last year, but … Continue reading Reading Ireland Month: Donal Ryan
Sex and Death: Stories, edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs
What civil lives we lead. So mannered, so controlled. Everything tidy and safe, everything put in its place. How hard we try not to be frightened, not to let the mind and body misbehave, not to come undone. Look at us in our ties and our stockings, taking vitamins and buying prophylactics, arranging mortgages and … Continue reading Sex and Death: Stories, edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs
Literary Wives: The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Every other month, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? Don’t forget to check out the other members of Literary … Continue reading Literary Wives: The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
It's hard not to compare books by the same author. I was a little nervous going into Swimming Lessons, because I liked Our Endless Numbered Days so much. I couldn't help but wonder how she was going to top it. Or at least equal it. Well, she did. The stories are very different, but the … Continue reading Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
The Ballroom was as good as I was hoping it would be. Like Anna Hope's first book Wake, the story is told through alternating narrators: Ella, John and Charles. Ella and John are both patients at the Sharston mental institution, neither of them 'mad' or 'feeble-minded'. Just bad luck, really, has landed them there, at … Continue reading The Ballroom by Anna Hope
Highlights of 2016: Part 3
In Highlights of 2016: Part 1, I focused on books from Atlantic Canada. In Highlights of 2016: Part 2, I focused on the rest of my Canadian content. In this post I will focus on... Everything else ... and then I'm done! Standouts: (in no particular order) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - read for Reading New … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 3
Literary Wives: Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Every other month, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? Don’t forget to check out the other members of Literary … Continue reading Literary Wives: Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Novellas in November 2016
Novellas in November is hosted by Laura at Reading in Bed. The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault, translated by Liedewy Hawke This book could just as easily be called The Lonely Life of a Peculiar Postman. Either way, it was the perfect escape from the election results; I curled up by … Continue reading Novellas in November 2016
Consumed by Ink 