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)
Elizabeth Vonarburg's Reluctant Voyagers (1995) Trans. from the French Jane Brierley Does sci-fi reading use a different muscle? If so, mine is out of practice. And no wonder. With exception of a handful of fantasy novels and one speculative fiction novel, I've been decidedly rooted in realism this reading year.
As November's reads settle out, the 2010's reading challenges fall into line, and in quiet moments I am reflecting on the reading year and making bookish plans for 2011. You know how it is? How many bookish promises we readers make to ourselves, before the reader's fickle gaze shifts to
