by jillemaclean | Apr 30, 2018 | Book Review, Novels I’ve Read
Richard Wagamese was an Ojibway writer from northern Ontario, from the Wabaseemoong First Nation, who died in 2017. I read his novel “Indian Horse” over several days. Not a book to be rushed, because of the beauty of its prose and its harrowing story. The first few...
by jillemaclean | Apr 16, 2018 | Novels I’ve Read, Writing Inspiration
Does a book you’ve owned for a while suddenly leap off the shelf and demand to be read? Helen Humphrey’s The Lost Garden, published in 2002, was such a book for me last week. I read it over an evening and the next morning. In prose both subtle and sure of itself, she...
