From what I have seen so far, Under the Visible Life has not been getting the attention it deserves. Thanks to Susan at A Life in Books, I bumped it up my list, read it over the Holidays, and loved every minute of it. Both Susan and Naomi (The Writes of Woman) included it on … Continue reading Under the Visible Life by Kim Echlin
An Emily Readalong
Two years ago I participated in the Green Gables Readalong. We read one Anne book a month starting in January and ending in August. Ever since then, I have wanted to do the same with Emily. It's been at least 20 years since I read about her. I was originally going to start this month, but … Continue reading An Emily Readalong
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
Highlights of 2016: Part 2
In Highlights of 2016: Part 1, I focused on books form Atlantic Canada. Here I will focus on... The rest of Canada # of Canadian books read: 69 (last year, 59) % books Canadian: 67% (last year, 65.5%) STANDOUTS: (in no particular order) Watch How We Walk by Jennifer Lovegrove - Jehovah's Witnesses, coming-of-age The Douglas Notebooks by … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 2
Highlights of 2016: Part 1
Atlantic Canada This year I tried to focus more on Reading Atlantic Canada, and ended up reading 22 books. 32% of my CanLit reading was from Atlantic Canada. Newfoundland - 7 Nova Scotia - 12 New Brunswick - 3 PEI - 0 (I'm remedying this right now by reading The Blythes are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery. … Continue reading Highlights of 2016: Part 1
Giveaway: Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
The folks at Wolsak and Wynn have offered to send one of you a copy of Guy by Jowita Bydlowska - a book that gave me lots to think about! If you would like a chance to win this book, just comment below and I will randomly choose a winner on December 14th. The contest is open to residents … Continue reading Giveaway: Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
Field Notes: A City Girl’s Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia by Sara Jewell
This book was just what I needed after my string of amazing Giller reads. Engaging, but completely different. In 2006, when Sara Jewell's marriage ended, her first thought was to go to Pugwash, a small community in Cumberland County Nova Scotia where she had spent her summers as a child. She ended up staying, and … Continue reading Field Notes: A City Girl’s Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia by Sara Jewell
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 