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
Di Brandt's So this is the World and here I am in it (2007) Imagine my excitement in picking up Di Brandt's So this is the world and here I am in it (2007) for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge and discovering that not only was one of my earlier
Di Brandt's Speaking of Power (2006) I came across Di Brandt's work shortly after university when I was finally able to read what I wanted to read from the library shelves, my trusty alumnus card in hand, borrowing from the HQs and PRs like nobody's business. This was in the
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
