Carol Shields’s Swan was the first of her oeuvre that I encountered in a Women’s Literature course in grad school.  I enjoyed her prose and engrossing plots and her knack for point-of-views that are unique and refreshing.  I read The Stone Diaries for my bookclub’s December pick and it was…interesting. The plot is the story of Daisy Goodwill, which begins in Manitoba, Canada pre-WWI.  The narrator sounds like Daisy herself telling the story of how her parents met and she was conceived. Daisy spends most […]