Now that I've got some of you coming around to see the shelf-culling and the redecorating, I should catch you up with jottings from the handwritten Reading Journal I've been keeping this year. The last entry I shared from that little notebook was the one for Raynor Winn's The Salt Path. Coincidentally, the next book I read also followed a path. I did share the notebook page for Sarah Moss's The Ghost Path on my Instagram book account, but here it is again, opposite the entry for EDITED, November 9, 2020: Sarah Moss's slim but intense novel is titled The Ghost Wall, not The Ghost Path. Whoops!
Mary Gabriel's brilliant Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning, Garce Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. . .
That entry carries on to the next page, and I've also posted photos of the book and of some favourite passages on my Instagram book feed, here and here and here.
Since we last chatted here, I've finished Denise Mina's Alex Morrow series, and I'm hoping, hoping she will write another. Gods and Beasts is the third in the series, and it offers one truly compelling character who has had an intriguing dilemma foisted on him, who strives to act ethically in conditions that make that difficult. Alex, too. Alex continually works to discern what integrity can mean given the powerful imbrication of criminal and political and judicial systems. . . .Highly recommended.
And I'd also recommend Julian Barnes' The Only Story. and have scrawled a few notes about it in my little journal. . . (way back in 2011, I wrote a bit here about Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending, also with a retrospective male narrator, but quite different in many ways).
A few more words about this on my Instagram book account here and here.
In the interest of posting tonight rather than procrastinating yet again, I'm going to publish this "as is," and see if I can move through my August reading and into September -- before the end of October!
By the way, all these books were borrowed from Vancouver Public Library, so none require space on my recently culled shelves. . . .How much do you rely on your public library to supply your reading?
And have you, or might you, read any of the titles I've reviewed in this post? I'm almost afraid to ask what you've been reading lately -- there's sure to be a book that I will have to add to my To Be Read list, and oh, it's so long. . . Still, I'm curious. What have you read or are you reading these days?
Mary Gabriel's brilliant Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning, Garce Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. . .
That entry carries on to the next page, and I've also posted photos of the book and of some favourite passages on my Instagram book feed, here and here and here.
Since we last chatted here, I've finished Denise Mina's Alex Morrow series, and I'm hoping, hoping she will write another. Gods and Beasts is the third in the series, and it offers one truly compelling character who has had an intriguing dilemma foisted on him, who strives to act ethically in conditions that make that difficult. Alex, too. Alex continually works to discern what integrity can mean given the powerful imbrication of criminal and political and judicial systems. . . .Highly recommended.
And I'd also recommend Julian Barnes' The Only Story. and have scrawled a few notes about it in my little journal. . . (way back in 2011, I wrote a bit here about Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending, also with a retrospective male narrator, but quite different in many ways).
In the interest of posting tonight rather than procrastinating yet again, I'm going to publish this "as is," and see if I can move through my August reading and into September -- before the end of October!
By the way, all these books were borrowed from Vancouver Public Library, so none require space on my recently culled shelves. . . .How much do you rely on your public library to supply your reading?
And have you, or might you, read any of the titles I've reviewed in this post? I'm almost afraid to ask what you've been reading lately -- there's sure to be a book that I will have to add to my To Be Read list, and oh, it's so long. . . Still, I'm curious. What have you read or are you reading these days?