BOOKS: Trying to not be too quiet...
Aug. 18th, 2016 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewline...although the decompression after each work day isn't helping me stay talkative even in this venue. And Facebook doesn't help me focus on writing here overmuch, does it?
Anyway...keeping an eye out for new reading material, and several of you have been kind enough to help out with recommendations of your own over the last few weeks. Merci beaucoup for that to those responsible.
A couple of titles I am trying to make time for:
1. The Ward: the Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor. Recommended by Spacing Magazine's print edition, and since several of their Toronto contributors - such as Mr. Lorinc - are involved here...well, I need to get a look. We're talking about early Toronto history here, and a lot of Canadian history in general is still terra incognita - but never terra nullius! - to me.
2. Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit. Since I've been interested in her writings thanks to the historical atlases she's edited, this seems like a good thematic fit.
Anyway...keeping an eye out for new reading material, and several of you have been kind enough to help out with recommendations of your own over the last few weeks. Merci beaucoup for that to those responsible.
A couple of titles I am trying to make time for:
1. The Ward: the Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor. Recommended by Spacing Magazine's print edition, and since several of their Toronto contributors - such as Mr. Lorinc - are involved here...well, I need to get a look. We're talking about early Toronto history here, and a lot of Canadian history in general is still terra incognita - but never terra nullius! - to me.
2. Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit. Since I've been interested in her writings thanks to the historical atlases she's edited, this seems like a good thematic fit.
