Passage Through the Week #18

Wish I’d said it myself: Lisa Moore’s astute argument for character driven novels (From Saturday’s Globe) :
Character is plot, because character moves, leaves traces, is formed and reformed and doesn’t stand still. Character is action. Character is a shifting, mesmeric entity in the hands of a skilled writer, and it is the changes in a [...]

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Passage Through the Week #17

This week, not a passage from a book, but from Anne Enright’s eloquent and elegant Globe and Mail review of Alice Munro’s new collection, Too Much Happiness:
Most importantly, these stories are not asking for our praise, they ask for our attention. They are not written for the crowd, but for the individual reader. They don’t [...]

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Passage Through the Week #16

One of my favourite opening paragraphs (from one of my favourite books). It’s got it all — humour, foreshadowing, history, and a wonderful inversion of the fairy tale opening while maintaining many of its fantastical elements:
I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time. No, that [...]

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