In honor of our mini-vacation to Toronto, this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Margaret Atwood! She was born in Ottawa, but it looks like her formative years were spent in Toronto and I’ve never read a word she’s written!
And I have read some work by Robertson Davies (I think just Fifth Business
I read a peice of “Surfacing” by Margaret and the opening pages of “Teh Blnd Asssassin” but there’s something about her that just does ring true for me. I doubt I’ll ever get through one of her books either. Her compatriot, however, Alice Munro is an astonishingly good writer.
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