Category Archives: Currently reading

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 […]

Continuing the reading habit, mostly poetry, a little memoir/biography. Otherwise Smooth by Rosmary Waldrop (above/ground, 2013) I’ve long said for every book published, forget the blurb or synopsis. The cover, fine, price, useful but give me even two lines from the work and I’ll know from it than all that. That tells me more of […]