April 2011
8 posts
Having finished Steve Himmer’s The Bee-Loud Glade last week, which proved to be an enjoyable follow-up to my recent re-reading of Thoreau’s Walden and thus a satisfying send-off to the American Literature course whose final exam I wrote on Monday night, I decided to read Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, in something of a continuation of the theme. I was worried that I...
nicklas replied to your photo: I bought these books yesterday in Guelph. We first…
That someone sold of Fun Home is shameful. Good find for you though.
I didn’t mention that Fun Home and Book were also bought new, and from an independent bookstore too! If the author is alive and the book is not out of print, I prefer to buy new....
“Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched...”
– Barbara Pym, Excellent Women Drinking a cup of tea, listening to Sibelius loudly enough to cover the yelling and cheering of neighbours, thinking about what novel to read next that could possibly follow Pym with any sort of dignity.
I could hear the man singing from halfway down the block. He had a Bible in a black leather case with his arms swinging in a pleasingly jaunty way. As he drew up to the spot where I stood, I looked him in the eye and he said to me, “Jesus Christ loves you so much!” pointing at me with the hand holding the book without breaking his stride. I smiled at his absurd joy as he ambled away,...
