Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me Freehand Books, 2010 It’s not just a problem for the curly-headed folks: even with straight hair, there are tangles, knots, and snarls. Everybody can relate to the struggle to make a course smooth once more. And these days, increasingly
Sarah Selecky’s This Cake is for the Party Thomas Allen, 2010 A lot of readers think of short stories like the crumbs on the cover image of Sarah Selecky’s stories: short stories are what’s left behind when a writer couldn’t make something whole out of an idea, couldn’t serve it
Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing HarperCollins, 2009 "Examining everything from free lunches to military spending, from love to television, The Value of Nothing reveals the hidden social consequences of our global culture of 'freedom' and explains why prices are always at odds with the true value of what matters
Watch and Learn (Er, Read) On the eighth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about The Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge. Matinee: One Book, One Movie This challenge was the perfect opportunity to revisit Margaret Laurence's wonderfully-accomplished novel,The Stone Angel, in conjunction with a viewing of
Oh, Canlit! (Or: Oh, Lit-de-Can!) On the sixth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about three Canlit-based reading projects: Canadian Book Challenge 3, Canada Reads, and Canada Reads Indie. Canada Reads: Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005) Translated French-English, Lazer Lederhendler (2008) Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (2008) Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (1996)
