My Ántonia by Willa Cather, originally published in 1918 is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant to the Nebraska prair...

I will not purchase any books from 1 January - 31 May.  No.  Not even one. I will only read books I own as of midnight 31 December 2012...

Looking back over my list of Books Read in 2012 I am surprised by how much difficulty I seem to have had in recording my thoughts for the b...

Janette Turner Hospital "Here and Now" As it happened, Alison was wearing black when the phone call came; black velvet, cu...

Anton Chekhov "Vanka" Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was ...

Carol Shields "The Orange Fish" (from The Orange Fish ) The narrator of this story is a 39-year old man, unhappy in life an...

Ethel Wilson "We Have to Sit Opposite" Two married Canadian women travelling from Salzburg to Munich are forced to share...

"The Furnished Room" A young man searching five months for his lost love in the city rents a furnished room from a landlady....

Lucy Maud |Montgomery "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" I found this story in my copy of The Oxford Book of Storie...

James Thurber  "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Now why does this title sound so familiar?  I have never read this story b...

An immigrant to Canada, Catharine Parr Traill and her husband settled near what is now Lakefield, Ontario in 1832.  She wrote many storie...

I have decided that from now until the new year, I am going to devote myself to reading short fiction.  I have several anthologies that sit ...

Please see here for my thoughts on Part One , Part Two , and  Part Three . Oh, Elizabeth Gaskell!  What a tale you have woven! Part e...

Please see here for my thoughts on Part One and for Part Two. The third quarter of North and South covers a dark time: each of the th...

Have you seen these incredible creations? Or heard the mysterious tale of the books transformed to art being left in various libraries aroun...

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, ...

I was distracted for the first three-quarters of the reading of Mrs. Palrey at the Claremont by the oddest sensation that I have read th...

Please see here for my thoughts on Part One Rumours of a possible strike circulate around Milton and Margaret is the perfect vehicle ...

Elizabeth at the Cardiff Public Library

My Thoughts on Reading the First Fifteen Chapters: In the fairy world of Harley Street, London, where Titania curls up, asleep on t...