Memory, regret, dying, avalanches: quintessential Canlit

2020-09-24T09:50:18-04:00

Dundurn, 2011 The ReLit shortlist was announced earlier this week, but I'm still reading from the longlist. Farzana Doctor's Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn, 2011) was also nominated for the Toronto Book Award. That's fitting because the setting plays an important role in this story, but much of the drama

Memory, regret, dying, avalanches: quintessential Canlit2020-09-24T09:50:18-04:00

In seventh grade, we played “Sundown” in the school band (badly)

2020-03-31T12:18:22-04:00

Writing Gordon Lightfoot is nominated for the 2012 Toronto Book Award. McClelland & Stewart, 2011 Many readers will say that they never read a book just because it has been nominated for an award. There are just as many people who rarely read but will, occasionally, pick up

In seventh grade, we played “Sundown” in the school band (badly)2020-03-31T12:18:22-04:00

On Copernicus Avenue

2014-03-17T16:45:53-04:00

Copernicus Avenue ends in a snarl of streetcar tracks. "We reached the bottom of the street where it widens into a multi-veined delta of streetcar tracks." Andrew J. Borkowski's Copernicus Avenue is a series of stories that intersect with each other, just as the rails from Queen Street, King Street, and the Avenue

On Copernicus Avenue2014-03-17T16:45:53-04:00

BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books

2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie's Aya de Yopougon 4 Gallimard, 2008 Read: At the table, because I said that I would use my dictionary to look up all the French words that I don't know (of course I always say that, but I never do) Warning: As the fourth book in

BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Discovering Jim Nason and Kergan Edwards-Stout

2014-03-17T13:31:36-04:00

If you don't already follow Black Coffee Poet, you should definitely check it out. (You want a cup of coffee now, don't you? It can't be helped.) Black Coffee Poet started his own reading program -- an alternative to the typical DWM syllabus -- in September 2010 and the posts

Discovering Jim Nason and Kergan Edwards-Stout2014-03-17T13:31:36-04:00
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