A Bird in the House

* Comments matter a whole lot more than clicks and are why I write publically. Every Margaret Laurence book reaches our empathy with anecdotal feelings. Even more memorable is exquisite wielding of language and unusually apt ways of conveying everything. I do not mean wordy. I relish among her attrib......more

Having almost nothing to do with this book, one of my earliest thoughts was what a powerhouse are the Canadian women authors. I feel very lucky to have accidentally discovered Margaret Laurence early, to be followed shortly by Alice Munro. So many are avid fans of Margaret Atwood (although I am not)......more

I like reading short stories even though the form confounds me a bit. I've heard it said that short stories are harder to write than novels, so I often wonder why an author like Alice Munro chooses the format, and as a reader, as much as I love her collections, I feel a bit deflated as each story en......more

En väldigt melankolisk läsning. Men jag käkade upp det totalt. Glider ner på fyra stjärnor eftersom det bitvis kändes lite repetativt; de åtta novellerna skulle kunna kortas ner till färre. Kommer definitivt läsa om!......more

This book is home to me. I read each of the short stories in this book on their own originally, and out of order, over a number of years. And I've read them together as a novella countless times. They stand alone, and they stand as a coherent, interconnected story. Laurence masterfully captures the v......more