Canadian Book Challenge 4 Final status, 52/13 I read about half of the 13 books recommended by Aritha van Herk, contemporary Canlit classics, and I’m glad I included this as part of the challenge because it kept me reading books that I wouldn’t have naturally taken reading time for. And
Both Buried-in-Print Girls have finished the nine books required for the local library's summer bookclub. The older Buried-in-Print Girl has discovered manga. The younger Buried-in-Print Girl has discovered Boneville. (And I discovered that cooling off in the library's A/C daily wasn't so bad after all.) But neither of
Doris McCarthy’s Ninety Years Wise Second Story Press, 2004 This is another book that I discovered thanks to Shelagh Rogers’ The Next Chapter. You know how sometimes you hear a name so many times and you keep meaning to investigate and then, suddenly, something happens and it shifts from a
Gordon j.h. Leeanders’ To Be Continued ECW Press, 2005 Read: Sitting at freshly-assembled dining-room table. Now we can seat 8 for a meal. Or one reader and one story collection. (It was a two-course read for me.) Warning: Even if you usually spread short story collections over time, you’ll be
Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool (1986) McClelland & Stewart, 1997 In an early edition of Jane Urquhart’s debut novel, she credits a 1915 novel for having inspired her story: Julia E. Cruikshank’s Whirlpool Heights: The Dream-House on the Niagara River. It’s difficult to find a copy of Whirlpool Heights but, because
