One of the issues considered in today's show is: how important is a strong sense of place and time for a book to engage a reader with a story. It is important, isn't it. So important that, just with reading that sentence, at least one book, more likely several, came
Inspired by today's Canada Reads debates, I find myself wondering: is it kinda disappointing when a book that has already been recognized internationally by readers and prize committees receives yet another award, and, if so, should the judges take every opportunity to look for another deserving title because those old
Today marks the launch of 2010's Canada Reads, which obviously I find intensely interesting, but it might not seem as fascinating if you're not following (live or via podcast), so I'm planning to pull out a more universal book-related, reading-related question that's raised in each day's debates -- rather than
Pat Capponi's The Corpse will Keep (2008) Following Dana Leoni's debut appearance, in Pat Capponi's Last Stop Sunnyside, is a tough act. The series launched the reader into a world that's quite likely unfamiliar to the majority of readers, though certainly familiar to its author, whose years of activist work
Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925) This feels, to me, like the quintessentially Canadian novel, the sort that I can imagine being assigned by English teachers (well, except for a couple of scenes that would have undoubtedly ruffled
