Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
SILENT FLOWERS
Dorothy Price, Editor. Nanae Ito, Illustrator. SILENT FLOWERS: A New Collection of Japanese Haiku Poems. Hallmark, 1967.
Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches.
Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches.
BUDDHISM FOR BEARS
Claire Nielson. Chris Riddell, Illustration. BUDDHISM FOR BEARS. Ebury, 1998.
Accessible. Beautifully illustrated.
Accessible. Beautifully illustrated.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Paula Hawkins. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. Doubleday, 2014.
Hawthorne Book Club selection for April. I had to get up in the middle of the night to read more. Very engaging plot. Thriller. Set in 2013 in suburban London, UK. Involves substance use, blackouts, relationships, and a missing woman.
Hawthorne Book Club selection for April. I had to get up in the middle of the night to read more. Very engaging plot. Thriller. Set in 2013 in suburban London, UK. Involves substance use, blackouts, relationships, and a missing woman.
ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM
Elizabeth Hay. ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM. McClelland and Stewart, 2011.
A Hawthorne Book Club selection for March. Loved this literary fiction which sucks us in with hints of murder and abuse and then presents a story of an almost invisible narrator discovering herself through researching family history and genealogy.Love how she distinguished between the facts we can find out and the things we will never know about the past and our ancestors who were there. Set in Saskatchewan in 1929 and then in Ontario in the end of the twentieth century.
A Hawthorne Book Club selection for March. Loved this literary fiction which sucks us in with hints of murder and abuse and then presents a story of an almost invisible narrator discovering herself through researching family history and genealogy.Love how she distinguished between the facts we can find out and the things we will never know about the past and our ancestors who were there. Set in Saskatchewan in 1929 and then in Ontario in the end of the twentieth century.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
THE BEAT GOES ON
Ian Rankin. The BEAT GOES ON: THE COMPLETE REBUS SHORT STORIES. Orion, 2014.
I still love Rebus. I always enjoy short story collections. One or two of these were familiar from earlier editions. I especially enjoyed Rankin's essay at the end about the origins of Rebus which also includes a sort of "portrait of the writer as a young man" and the realization for the writer that the city itself is an important character.
I still love Rebus. I always enjoy short story collections. One or two of these were familiar from earlier editions. I especially enjoyed Rankin's essay at the end about the origins of Rebus which also includes a sort of "portrait of the writer as a young man" and the realization for the writer that the city itself is an important character.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
BAD BOY
Peter Robinson. Bad Boy. McC&S, 2010.
A mother turns in a handgun to police and the world goes awry. Tracy Banks runs off with the bad boy and then becomes his hostage. Annie gets shot. Banks gets back from USA, jet-lagged.
This is my 6th Robinson title in 3 years. Even move than Rebus (Rankin) or Gamache (Penny).
A mother turns in a handgun to police and the world goes awry. Tracy Banks runs off with the bad boy and then becomes his hostage. Annie gets shot. Banks gets back from USA, jet-lagged.
This is my 6th Robinson title in 3 years. Even move than Rebus (Rankin) or Gamache (Penny).
Saturday, January 26, 2019
THE FACTS OF LIFE AND OTHER DIRTY JOKES
Willie Nelson. THE FACTS OF LIFE AND OTHER DIRTY JOKES. Random, 2002.
Song lyrics and dirty jokes told by Willie during a bus tour. Several nods and acknowledgements to friends and co-workers. Interesting in the way he says nothing except through the lyrics. Comments about pot and faith. A fast read. Not for the easily offended.
Favourite quote: "If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you." p. 183
Song lyrics and dirty jokes told by Willie during a bus tour. Several nods and acknowledgements to friends and co-workers. Interesting in the way he says nothing except through the lyrics. Comments about pot and faith. A fast read. Not for the easily offended.
Favourite quote: "If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you." p. 183
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