September 18, 2025

Vic Book Sale 2025

Another year, another stack from the Victoria College Book Sale. Which was wonderful, but HOT and crowded, and I was very tired, and also nostalgic for the days when I had not yet acquired all the books by beloved authors like Margaret Drabble and Penelope Lively, when the pickings seemed easy. But that’s what makes it all the more miraculous to discover gems like the last remaining Sue Miller novel I have yet to read, and also Barbara Trapido (whose novels don’t turn up much in Canada). And a very hard-to-find Louise Fitzhugh novel, which is not a novel without problems, but any Louise Fitzhugh book is worth my time (I read a library copy years ago). Penelope Fitzgerald’s bio of her father and his brothers! Muriel Spark on Mary Shelley (WHAT???). A couple of Anita Brooker’s (one first edition!), an Elizabeth Bowen, and one more by Mary Hocking, whom I’ve read once before and I’m not completely sure I’m on board but we shall see…