Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Third Age

I was interested to see Margaret Drabble cited in the recent Macleans article "The 27 Year Itch" regarding late-life divorce for having coined the phrase "The Third Age" in her The Seven Sisters. On the digitalization of reading. Jenny Diski on compacting the classics, which is horrifyingly awful.

I'm now reading The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches to put a little Canadienne in my CanLit. And it's wonderful. I came home from the library this morn also bearing Things Fall Apart and Youth.