tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post2032335470782743602..comments2024-03-22T21:55:42.651+00:00Comments on Elizabeth Baines: Reading group: In the Skin of a Lion by Michael OndaatjeElizabeth Baineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-14766835442018607402021-08-13T12:16:22.298+01:002021-08-13T12:16:22.298+01:00No, sorry! It's now ten years since we read an...No, sorry! It's now ten years since we read and discussed the book, and I would have to read it again to tell you such detail!Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-20178664844398003672021-08-12T14:50:31.663+01:002021-08-12T14:50:31.663+01:00Hi. Can u tell me 5 places in Toronto that are dis...Hi. Can u tell me 5 places in Toronto that are discussed in the novel ?? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710715188708062231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-19314167319178417422011-09-14T08:55:11.406+01:002011-09-14T08:55:11.406+01:00Yes, I should have mentioned that mixing of real-l...Yes, I should have mentioned that mixing of real-life figures and fictional events. It's another displacement that works in the way of dreams, and which makes the novel precisely a comment on historical/geographical readings of fiction.Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-82723506730803699152011-09-14T02:07:27.563+01:002011-09-14T02:07:27.563+01:00Five years on from my first reading, In the Skin o...Five years on from my first reading, In the Skin of a Lion is still my favouite novel. I love the rich prose and the weaving of real lives into a highly engrossing novel - though I do think the improbability that exists to make heroes of men and props of women is overstated at times - it is a deeply symbolic and poetic take on historiography.Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.com