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  • Update: Reading/Life

    where my reading/life has taken me lately

    indirectlibre

    October 18, 2019
    Reading Life
    af-am lit, migrant stories, reading list, women writers
  • What I’ve Been Reading Lately

    Loves, I haven’t written in a while. I know. There you are, sitting around waiting patiently, in quiet desperation, for me to tell you what to read. And here I am, barely able to make it through a page before I have to get up out of my chair and rush with great urgency to […]

    indirectlibre

    March 31, 2018
    Reading Life
    19th century, autofiction, criticism, essays, immigration, Montréal, motherhood, translation
  • What I’ve Been Reading Lately

    Loves, it’s the end of 2017. That’s right. We did it! (as my toddler says). We walked through this year and we came out unscathed. But we’re still here, we’re still fighting the power, and if you (like me) are someone who has dedicated yourself to words and reading them, and sometimes even stringing them […]

    indirectlibre

    January 1, 2018
    Reading Life
    First Nations, Montréal, witches
  • Review: Jane Yolen’s The Emerald Circus

    There’s no need to introduce Jane Yolen, writer of children’s and young adult books whose name was pretty much all over my childhood book shelves. She is most famous for writing folklore and fantasy, reinventing classic tales and often paired with illustrators whose work will look immediately familiar to any child of the 90’s. This […]

    indirectlibre

    November 13, 2017
    Reviews
    fairy tales, Fantasy, YA
  • Review: The Rules of Magic

    To begin, I was wary, as one often is when an author revisits a beloved book so many years later. But let me say up front, for those of you who might also be a bit hesitant about going back to the Owens family two decades after Practical Magic, that Alice Hoffman’s latest novel, The […]

    indirectlibre

    October 19, 2017
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  • What I’ve been reading lately

    Hello! Guess what. I quit my job to read novels full time. Just kidding! Gotcha. However, I did some time off work in order to prepare for the arrival of bébé numéro deux. As a tremendously awesome consequence, (which almost-but-not-quite makes up for the unbearable HUGENESS of my life right now), I have more time […]

    indirectlibre

    September 20, 2017
    Reading Life
  • What I’ve been reading lately

    Let me tell you something. Between 9-5 in an office, chasing a toddler, producing literary events, and coordinating volunteers at the Blue Met festival this year, I have barely had enough time to breathe lately, let alone read. Let alone write any words about books that I’m reading. Yet. Somehow (probably in the time I […]

    indirectlibre

    June 5, 2017
    Reading Life
    Caribbean Literature, Literature of East Asia, religion, vampires, witches
  • Notes on Helen Phillips’s Some Possible Solutions

    There is a strange quiet to the stories in this collection. They wade through an environmentally devastated dystopian future and give off whispered warnings rather than roaring doom. They are uncomfortable, uneasy, but in a way that emulates the fairy tale, chock full of timeless mythic secrets, shrouded in mystery. This collection of stories follows […]

    indirectlibre

    February 6, 2017
    Notes
    fairy tales, Fantasy, motherhood
  • Review: Life in the Court of Matane by Éric Dupont (translated by Peter McCambridge)

    Any book prefacing itself with the claim that “to understand this novel, readers must listen to ‘Little Earthquakes’ [by Tori Amos] and ‘Pointant le nord’ [by Pierre LaPointe]” is a book that already has the deck stacked significantly in its favour for me. There is probably a lot to love about a book for whom […]

    indirectlibre

    December 17, 2016
    Reviews
    autofiction, Quebec, religion
  • Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent

    Usually, I cannot abide the claim that a book is “like a love letter to” another book. The expression rarely makes any real sense. And it strikes me as an unnecessarily flowery way to say that one book is like another, or influenced by another, or otherwise responding to another book in some way. But in this case, […]

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    September 12, 2016
    Uncategorized
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