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First of all, I loved the prose. While it was fragmented and jumped from timeline to timeline, it still felt like it was organize to tell a story in chronological order in terms of themes. Character information were slowly revealed the more you read, and individual traumas unfolded which explained why the sisters became how they were like in the… Continue reading →

Symphony in White is a type of novel I could read over and over again. It is a real symphony, as its title suggests. It is a contrapunto of characters, times, places, and, above all, conflicts/traumas that come together and intertwine with the past. In addition, the descriptions in this novel are a masterpiece that […] Continue reading →

  I HAVE RUNG through this novel at the till at work more times than I remember. Over the years, I’ve seen it pass through in different editions, though customers gravitate towards the familiar Vintage edition and, more recently, its monochromatic red cover as a Kanata Classics edition printed by McClelland & Stewart. I have […] Continue reading →

There are too many themes to explore through this short novel, so I don’t know where to begin in this blog. I am so happy I had not changed my reading choices; just based on the many synopses listed on our website, I thought I’d hate Ru because it was described as poetry and as a historic, a genre I… Continue reading →

I was surprised at how different the themes and structure of this book was in comparison to the first two books that we read. While in those books we talked a lot about the emotions revolving around a relationship, or the usage of the body to affirm one’s identity, this book raises new ideas regarding class disparity, familial roles, and… Continue reading →