In my last post, I wrote about Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables (1908) and Emily of New Moon (1923). Almost immediately following that book, I read The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie; another fictional account of a well known female author from Canada's … Continue reading The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie by Cecily Ross
Tag: Canadian women writers
“Everything written by any woman was written by all women…”: Heather O’Neill, Scaachi Koul, and Erin Wunker
Notes From A Feminist Killjoy by Erin Wunker I finished this excellent book a couple of months ago, and I still find myself looking at things differently than I did before reading it. I underlined so many parts that I'm surprised at myself for not writing about it yet. But when I saw that Notes … Continue reading “Everything written by any woman was written by all women…”: Heather O’Neill, Scaachi Koul, and Erin Wunker
Steal Away Home: One Woman’s Epic Flight to Freedom – And Her Long Road Back to the South by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Karolyn Smardz Frost spent ten years researching for and writing this book, and it shows. The story centers around a woman named Cecelia Jane Reynolds, but there are many, many other interesting and amazing people and events happening in this book. So many names and dates, and I wanted to absorb and remember every one … Continue reading Steal Away Home: One Woman’s Epic Flight to Freedom – And Her Long Road Back to the South by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Emily Readalong: Emily’s Quest
Contains spoilers! In The Gift of Wings, Mary Henley Rubio states that "Maud was relieved when she finished the book... It had been a chore." But you would never get that feeling while reading it. To me it felt like it was written in a whirl of headiness; it's a page-turner full of high emotions and … Continue reading Emily Readalong: Emily’s Quest
Emily Readalong: Emily Climbs
Contains spoilers! When it came to writing the sequels to her novels, Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery "felt little interest". According to Mary Henley Rubio in The Gift of Wings, it was "only her personal discipline that got her through the sequels, where her feisty heroines had to be … Continue reading Emily Readalong: Emily Climbs
Lemon by Cordelia Strube
Lemon completely took me by surprise. First, I wasn't expecting to love it (and her) so much. Second, I wasn't expecting it to break my heart. And third, I wasn't expecting it to be so relevant. Lemon is a coming-of-age story that deals with bullying, violence against women, and a search for a place to call … Continue reading Lemon by Cordelia Strube
The Break by Katherena Vermette
[Goodreads synopsis] When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who … Continue reading The Break by Katherena Vermette
Under the Visible Life by Kim Echlin
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
Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
About Guy: Easy on the eyes.. And knows it. Eats well. Works out every morning. Rich and successful. Owns a house on the beach. The beach that he likes to walk his dog on, and watch women look at him. He rates these women on a scale of 1 to 10. His prefers 3s, 4s … Continue reading Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
Do you ever wonder what happens to all the deer and moose that get hit on the highway? There is a boneyard deep in the woods. The deer and moose could show you where. They know the place where the trees stop and the carcasses begin. All the Things We Leave Behind begins with Violet and … Continue reading All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
Consumed by Ink 