‘Novel’ etiketi için içerik arşivleri
It apppears that I have been afflicted with writers’ block and spring fever (it’s been unseasonably warm and sunny here in Ottawa). And for a while there, I was recovering from chemo.
I have been feeling kind of blue these last few days. I’m always relieved after I get good scan results but a feeling of let-down seems to follow almost every time and I find myself, once again, channelling Peggy Lee and asking “Is that all there is?”
Last year, I challenged myself to read all the books selected for Canada Reads 2009. There was only one that I didn’t finish (Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards) but that was because it was just too relentlessly depressing for me. I had to call it at page 64.
