Yesterday, I wandered around Fairsfair on 17th Ave. and 14th St in Calgary, AB, and noted that there are like-new copies of Kite Runner and Half of a Yellow Sun for half-price there. The three other Fairsfair stores likely have copies as well. I’ve blogged about these two works before, and both are such spellbinding […]
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18 April 2008 · 2:42 pm · No comments
Jodi Picoult. Nineteen Minutes. New York: Washington Square Press, 2007.
Jodi Picoult. Nineteen Minutes. New York: Washington Square Press, 2007.
Jodi Picoult’s novels are the type that I like to read on planes, or during coffee breaks, or while riding the bus to work (if I actually manage to get a seat on the bus in busy Calgary, Alberta). Picoult’s plots are timely. She often picks […]
13 April 2008 · 10:39 pm · 1 comment
If there were less than 100 words left
IF there were less than 100 hundred words left in the world, I would want them to be:
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
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11 April 2008 · 4:16 pm · No comments
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing recently won the Nobel Prize. She seemed sad to have done so, because as she’s indicated in some of her interviews it’s the final step. One senses that as long as the Nobel is dangled like the desired food in front of writers’ noses there’s always something to work toward. Then it happens […]
6 April 2008 · 4:11 pm · 1 comment
Science Fiction?
In and around marking final papers, preparing semester-end exams and so on, I’ve been trying to read some science fiction. Now, I like Margaret Atwood’s type of science fiction, I like Timothy Findley’s novel Pilgrim, which I consider to be (in some ways) science fiction, and I like Ursula LeGuin’s and Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction […]