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Alice I Think

Alice I Think | Susan Juby

A Good Role Model in a Bad Place
16 months ago

Alice MacLeod hasn’t been to a public school since the first day of first grade. Now, at fifteen, as a favour to her therapist (because she doesn’t want this one to have a breakdown, too), Alice agrees to enter the real world. But first, she needs a new haircut. “Alice, I Think” is the journal our heroine keeps of her transformation. Without any idea of current trends, or any apparent interest in them, Alice is free to be who she wants to be. It is a remarkable feat for a teenager, fic… read review

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Portrait of a Lady: One of the Globe and Mail’s 50 Greatest

11 months ago

This year, the Globe and Mail is naming their choices for the 50 Greatest Books. Each selection will be defended by a member of a handpicked international panel of writers and experts.

This week, authour Colm Toíbín defended Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James:

“Henry James used everything he knew, including his own complex self, when he wrote The Portrait of a Lady.

“He dramatized his own interest in freedom against his own egotism, his own bright charm … view post

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