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April DrayThe Provincial Library is for readers who are simultaneously enchanted and (also equally) overwhelmed by all that there is to read in the world.
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July/August 2026 read-along pick: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The first real heatwave of the summer has settled onto my corner of the earth (or rather a large portion of the U.S.) and I can think of no better time to start Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove.
I hear it is THE Western to read.
I have high...
When the Struggle to Understand Just Might be the Whole Point
What do you say about a book you are not confident you understood—but you are immensely confident you did not enjoy?
(Just know that at this very moment I’m forcing myself to sit down and write. My thoughts are going to come out choppy; it...
June 2026 read-along pick: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
I’m not entirely sure it’s wise to choose The Sound and the Fury for my first Faulkner—but here I am.
Aside from the fact that it is one of a good friend’s favorite books, my preference for another stream of conscious narrative surroundin...
On Personal Perspective and Perpetual Pain
The most satisfying novels are the novels that leave me wrestling long after I’ve put them down.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is one of those novels—and it has absolutely nothing to do with loose ends and an untidy conclusion.
On the...
The Reward of Summoning the Courage to Read Lengthy Literature
Some of the best novels I’ve ever read have contained 600 -1,000+ pages—and I have yet to regret reading even one of them.
I have also—not even once—attempted to read such books because of their high page count. On the contrary, I’ve been...
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