The Most Carol Shields Day Ever?
Dublin Book Festival shared a fun blog post earlier this week as a lead-up to one of their events with an Irish musician who just published a book. (No, not that one — geez.) It was just a quick, whimsical read about five songs that were inspired by books, and of course one of them was Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. I hadn’t heard that song in a while, so pulled it up on Spotify, and then spent the next 10 minutes Googling Kate Bush. And then I learned that there is a “holiday” called The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, wherein people around the world reenact Bush’s video. WHAT! (Check out this Guardian pic of this day in 2018 in Sydney.)
Then I got wondering how fantastic it would be if there were a “day” devoted to my favorite novel (or novelist), and of course that would be Carol Shields Day, and well, isn’t the story of a regular ol’ woman trying to figure out the world around her just my everyday? Every day is Carol Shields Day…wheeeee! (How do I dress up for that? Wait! She has a collection of short stories called Dressing Up for the Carnival…)
{Here’s the link to the second blog post I wrote back in 2014 about Shields’ first novel, Small Ceremonies…if you want to take a peek about what life in America looked like from my perspective at the time and how not everything has to be a “thing.”}
{PS: I love the cover of my edition of Small Ceremonies and the image of the copyedited text in the background.}
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