Kristjana Gunnars' The Rose Garden (1996) When I bought my copy of The Rose Garden, it was shelved in Fiction at The Bookshelf in Guelph, which is such a good bookstore that eventually I had to move to the town so that I could visit there more often than once
Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah (1975) When my copy of Z for Zachariah came through on library loan, I was a bit disappointed: it was a relatively new paperback and the cover wasn't anywhere near as disturbing as I remember the cover of the edition that I read as
Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a
Elizabeth Smart’s Journals, Edited by Alice van Wart Necessary Secrets (1991) and On the Side of the Angels (1994) Let’s say you haven’t even heard of this writer before and, as a good little feminist, you wonder why I’ve chosen to read her for the Women Unbound Challenge, and you
Click the cover to visit the author's site Douglas Coupland's Generation X (1991) Generation X should top my mental list of reads that remind me why re-reading is important. I read this book shortly after it was published, but I didn't remember much about it at all. And perhaps
