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I’m usually rather serious. As when discussing books like Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, and Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Spiral. (Yes, I have a thing for Michaels.) But I can also be silly. (As in “Dear Public Library”.)
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About the pages that I’ve been turning
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Fresh bookishness!
Mini Update Sticky Post: November 13, 2024 If you're looking to catch up? Check out my reflections on 2023's reading, and plans for 2024. All year I've been
Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood, “The Dead Interview” #MARM2024
The title of this story reminded me of both “The Last Interview” series and the Proust Questionnaire—as it has been broadcast in CBC’s “The Next Chapter” with
Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls, “Lives of the Poets” #MARM2024
Julia is lying on the hotel bathroom floor with a nosebleed, a few hours before her literary reading, from her book of poetry, at an event in
Week Two: Update and Check-In #MARM2024
Anyone else have trouble focussing this week? I know I’m not the only one. At the same time, it felt particularly important to read the words of
Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood, “My Evil Mother” #MARM2024
I don’t like the word ‘evil’: does anyone? Well, some. If only for effect. The showrunners for this show, for instance. [I’ve not watched it. But maybe
Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls, “Training” #MARM2024
MARM 2024 PLANS Launch (November 1) Dancing Girls, “Training” (November 5) Old Babes in the Wood, “My Evil Mother” (November 7) Week Two: Update and Check-In (November
Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2024 #MARM2024
Happy MARM to everyone who’s reading this post! From Friday, November 1st to Saturday, November 30th it’s Margaret Atwood Reading Month, and you’re invited! (And, don’t forget,
Black Cake and Serial Killers, Imprisonment and Pilgrimages #LoveYourLibrary
Not that anyone reading this needs convincing, about how diverse the offerings are on library shelves, but just imagine the dramatically different reading moods each of these
Leaves and Trees, Girls and Women
The other day I wrote about the pair of Heinemann Classics I’ve read this year. Maybe you’ve seen their quintessential orange and black and white covers. They
Reader and Writer
Grateful for so many good connections, good matches between B.I.P. and particular books!
Any work that I have ever agreed to accept has been covered on B.I.P.