So many books so little time. Would have been nice to meet you in TO. Could have done a "socio-cultural" tour of the city which I once did for a visiting American friend. Chinatown, Koreatown, Greektown. The Bridle Path where the very wealthy have their homes and the "projects" in various parts of the city. AGO is great but also worth visiting are McMichael Gallery for Canadian art and the Aga Khan Museum in my neighborhood. By the way Canadian writers are generally neglected in the US unless movies or TV shows are based on their work or they win some major prize. Two Canadian novels I would recommend are Barney's version by Mordecai Richler and Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.
How thrilled I was to be in the Lighthouse cohort! And yes, it was wonderful.
You commented in the Granta piece how Clever Girl swept you away. I had the same experience with Hadley's Late in the Day. The blurb sounds so ordinary, but she drops you completely inside the world from the first paragraph. Or so she did for me...
What an inspiring post this has been! You mentioned something about calendar not registering your reading for sometime. How does that work? Is it the same calendar that we all use?
So many books so little time. Would have been nice to meet you in TO. Could have done a "socio-cultural" tour of the city which I once did for a visiting American friend. Chinatown, Koreatown, Greektown. The Bridle Path where the very wealthy have their homes and the "projects" in various parts of the city. AGO is great but also worth visiting are McMichael Gallery for Canadian art and the Aga Khan Museum in my neighborhood. By the way Canadian writers are generally neglected in the US unless movies or TV shows are based on their work or they win some major prize. Two Canadian novels I would recommend are Barney's version by Mordecai Richler and Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.
Thank you for the recommendations. 🙏🏽
How thrilled I was to be in the Lighthouse cohort! And yes, it was wonderful.
You commented in the Granta piece how Clever Girl swept you away. I had the same experience with Hadley's Late in the Day. The blurb sounds so ordinary, but she drops you completely inside the world from the first paragraph. Or so she did for me...
❤️🙏🏽
I'm going to sorely miss our Zoom discussions! Thanks for all the valuable advice and insights, and the lightheartedness. It was an amazing year :-)
It was so much fun. Thank you for making me come along on the journey. 🙏🏽
What an inspiring post this has been! You mentioned something about calendar not registering your reading for sometime. How does that work? Is it the same calendar that we all use?
The calendar I was using was a bulky paper document and I hadn’t lugged it with me to India in March.
What a productive year you had. Cheers to 2024-to more reading books, watching films and of course, travelling, writing, painting, sketching and more!
Mujhe lagta hai one should be reading more!
Jee, koshish jaree hai :)