pickIf you are a fan of Jenny Offill or Lucy Ellmann, I think this feminist novel published in 1970 will appeal. I enjoyed the compressed timeline—a single evening—and the stream of consciousness style. Minn is hugely pregnant (an IUD failure); her 3 kids are asleep; her war reporter husband is away; & party guests she doesn‘t know have taken over the crumbling mansion that she & her husband rent in Toronto. Amusing, introspective #CanLit.
White towels in the bathroom, still. Colours are vulgar and their purpose is to disguise dirt.
Love was an idea you lived through and came out on the other side of. It was slowly replaced by the necessities of devotion and duty. But it manifested itself periodically in little misplaced surges of carnality and went away again. The spirit nourished on Lorna Doone & Jane Eyre & Le Grand Meaulnes did not give up adventure easily.
I haven‘t thought of anything so complex for years. […]
Did I love my husband! Well, I said, what‘s that got to do with anything?
Funny, before she went to France she hadn‘t known that films had directors the way books have authors. You learned a lot, growing up in a place like Godwin and moving on to a provincial university; you learned a lot, say, about the dear old nineteenth century. But not that films have directors.
Five books that I‘ve read recently:
Saturday Reads July 30 with shoutouts to booktube influence on my reading choices
https://youtu.be/yObjzyOpFfU
In my government there‘d be compulsory downstairs bathrooms for all mothers, and a squad of government housekeepers on motorcycles, old women who‘d flap in, pounce on the children, crying, “I love this one, oh, isn‘t that one wonderful, can I have them for a day, the darlings?” holiday help by lottery, abortion on demand, cheap nationalised shoes. In my government…
https://youtu.be/a1VSu_4287E
Intro
The Honeyman Festival by Marian Engel
Scatterlings by Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley
All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern
Elizabeth Bowen: Collected Stories
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
…sweet corpses fell on fiction like dead leaves.
https://youtu.be/m9tuXcggciY
Intro
Best Bookstore Adventure Ever!
The Honeyman Festival by Marian Engel
Scatterlings by Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley
Little Fish by Casey Plett
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
The audio/text combo
Addendum: Roe v. Wade
The Honeyman Festival: A Novel | 
