Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes (1936) Bonnie and Paul Zindel's A Star for the Latecomer (1980) I wanted to be a ballerina when I grew up. My best friend and I practiced the five positions (complete with leaping and twirling in and out of them) on the couch in her family
Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996) Image links to Canada Reads 2010 This is a re-read for me, and the last of the books I've been reading and re-reading with 2010's Canada Reads in mind. I heard a few people commenting on how hard (even how
M.G. Vassanji's The Book of Secrets (1994) Have you read M.G. Vassanji yet? I chose this one as part of my glimpse into a pocket of Canlit missed in 1994 but I was really just looking for an excuse to read more of his work, which I had intended to
Sheesh, was I ever Buried In Print this past month: and March's stack looks, if possible, even more daunting (alternatively, on a brighter day, even more thrilling). I've updated my February reads to the 2010 Books Read List and am nearing the end of a couple of reads which herald
Image links to Pickle Me This, home of the Challenge I read Ray Smith’s Century (1986) for Canada Reads Independently, but I’m going to draw from previous Canada Reads’ Un-Independently lists for these comparisons: Century is like Aquin’s Next Episode, like Cohen’s Beautiful Losers. You see what I
