Canada Reads: Middle (Day Two)

2014-03-10T20:44:31-04:00

If I was coming into these debates not having read these books, I think I’d be readily swayed by Lorne Cardinal’s defense of Carol Shields’ novel, Unless. (With Sara Quin weighing in on the other end of the table.) I’m not just saying that because Unless is one of my

Canada Reads: Middle (Day Two)2014-03-10T20:44:31-04:00

Canada Reads: Beginning (Day One)

2014-03-10T20:44:40-04:00

Launching with an hour-long show is great. A half-hour launch leaves a scrambled sense of the panelists, and their passion for their chosen works is nothing but a blur before it’s time to relegate one of those to the sidelines. Did the montages for each book make the best use

Canada Reads: Beginning (Day One)2014-03-10T20:44:40-04:00

Canada Reads: Angie Abdou

2014-03-10T20:43:15-04:00

Angie Abdou’s The Bone Cage NeWest Press, 2007 Chlorine and sweat: Angie Abdou’s debut novel is soaked. And if you can’t abide the smell of either, you might not want to cozy up to the tale of Sadie and Digger. These two are splashing their way to the top, elite

Canada Reads: Angie Abdou2014-03-10T20:43:15-04:00

Canada Reads Indie: Darren Greer

2014-03-10T20:41:42-04:00

Darren Greer’s Still Life with June Cormorant Books Inc, 2003 His phone number is unlisted and he always, always uses a pseudonym; when he rhymes those aliases off, one of them is Darren Greer. So straight off, reading Darren’s Greer’s novel, Still Life with June, readers know that they will

Canada Reads Indie: Darren Greer2014-03-10T20:41:42-04:00

Canada Reads Indie: Thomas King

2014-03-10T20:32:28-04:00

Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water Harper-Flamingo, 1999 Truth is the railroad town on one side of the river, in the United States; Bright Water is the reserve on the other side of the river, in Canada. Once there had been a plan to build a bridge, but something went

Canada Reads Indie: Thomas King2014-03-10T20:32:28-04:00
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