Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley Many Canadians around my age first knew Sarah Polley as the "Story Girl" in CBC's Road to Avonlea. More recently, she's known for her work directing Alias Grace and Women Talking, movies based on books by Margaret Atwood and Miriam Toews. Sarah Polley's memoir touches on major events … Continue reading What I’ve Been Listening To: child actors, brushes with death, food additives, reconciliation, family histories, and climate change
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Four times a year, 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 … Continue reading #LiteraryWives: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Reading Ireland Month is hosted by Cathy at 746Books and Niall at The Fluff is Raging. I made it with two days left to spare! Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne I have now read three of Boyne's books for children and none of his adult books. I don't know why this … Continue reading #ReadingIreland18: John Boyne and Maggie O’Farrell
For Reading Ireland Month this year, I was determined to read one of Maggie O'Farrell's novels, after reading TJ's review of The Hand That First Held Mine and Cathy's review of The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. I would have been happy with either of them. But the only two of her books in my … Continue reading Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
Consumed by Ink 