Category Archives: Currently reading

Finished reading titles by lately: Bragg, Truhlar, Fraticelli, Brockwell, Abel, Reiss, Berg and an issue of illeratature but the last 3 are for another day of blogging. Winter Music by Mary Lee Bragg Tree Press, 2013). You can hear her read excerpts at her launch. If you are a reader who’d rather read words than […]

A worthwhile book for you, leads you somewhere. It isn’t packed so self-contained that there’s no loose thread. If a book confirms or comforts and has no aha, no deepening, widening or redirecting, then couldn’t I have watched trees move in the wind to as much or more benefit? It’s not that I entirely want […]

Not an instalment of 95 books because I’m not done one of them. Buried past these are more I haven’t opened or have but are temporarily waysided. After Desire by George Stanley (2013, New Star Book) The Ambassadors by Henry James (Kindle) Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney (Online) Bite Down Little Whisper by Don […]

During by Karen Houle (Gaspereau, 2008). I’ve been reading this for 3 months. With 2 tosses across the room in aggravation and subsequent rants, and a few decisions that I’ll never finish it. And yet something about the text made me continue. Some lines sing, and there’s a sense of something urgent and necessary being […]

Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth Century Women Writers by Lorna Sage (Fourth Estate, 2001) It was pitched oddly so far as cover — the literary critic’s name is 3x bigger than the title of the book and who she’s talking about is relegated to hard to read text on the back cover. Perhaps that is […]