Dear Dancer, Have you finished The Silmarillion? It’s been a week or two and so maybe you have. I saw you again on the subway and now I want to know. Did you like it? I saw you the first time on the bus home one night, I think after my night class, so probably [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Thunder and the Big Woods
We’ve just come through a hot spell, which finally resolved itself late last night with one of the bigger thunderstorms I’ve witnessed in a long while. It was much more exciting than the previous night’s tornado warning (since, with that, nothing happened). I had already been in bed and mostly asleep when first the rain [...]
Giveaway Winners! And a Giveaway!
Ladies and gents, this is it! I present to you the winners: Atonement, by Ian McEwan: Jaimee Dining with Death, by Kathleen Molloy: Melanie Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto: Becki The Ovum Factor, by Marvin L. Zimmerman: Callmeabookworm Swimming Pool Sunday, by Madeleine Wickham: Bookroomreviews Congrats, all! You will be receiving an email from me shortly. [...]
Author Interview: Susan Woodring (Springtime on Mars)
Look, an author interview! A while back I was contacted by — or maybe contacted, I don’t remember — by Mary Lewis of Book Stop Blog Tours. Time and events passed as they usually do, and soon enough I was sent a marvellous book of short stories to review as part of the author’s blog [...]
Glad We’ve Got This Sorted Out
My grade eleven English teacher would be proud. You’re Prufrock and Other Observations! by T.S. Eliot Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, [...]
May Books
M is for May, and May is for Modernism! At least in one case. May is also for Murder! And May, though it may not seem so on the surface, is for Short Fiction. Here are the books I read last month (with comments appended): The Princes of Ireland, by Edward Rutherfurd. This was a [...]