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Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Library's stacks, she chose a shelf of fiction almost at random and read her way through it. Unsure of what she would find, she was nonetheless certain "that no one in the history of the world had read exactly this series of novels."
What results is a spirited experiment in "Off-Road or Extreme Reading." Rose's shelf...

The stories in Tell us about the Olden Days, Please Mommy originated from the tales Brandow relayed to her two children when they were young and crawled in bed and asked her to describe the olden days. The narrative encompasses events and life experiences from her early years growing up in Manitoba, Canada, to her nomadic years moving throughout Canada, to eventually settling down in Calgary to begin the...