Category Archives: Canadian Book Challenge
Galore by Michael Crummey
Some novels you can read in snatches over several weeks, at the bus stop or in the kitchen while waiting for the toast to pop. Galore is not one of these. I started reading it Christmas Eve, and discovered then that this book is nearly physically impossible to put down after anything less than, say, [...]
The Idler’s Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell
This book, the seventh one I’ve read for my Great Canadian Book Challenge, was given to me by Dan Wells at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in September. The Biblioasis booth just happened to be next to TNQ’s and I suspect he noticed me eyeing it up all afternoon, thinking things like ‘why didn’t I [...]
All Times Have Been Modern by Elisabeth Harvor
I picked up this book because my friend Catherine challenged me to re-read. A few days ago she checked in on my progress and, finding it unsatisfactory, threatened to stop bringing her home-made chocolate chip cookies to TNQ until I complied. Hm. How do I express the severity of this situation? To say Catherine has [...]
Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Okay, so I’m not going to pretend I completely understood this book. To do so, I think I would need a solid background in aboriginal myth and creation stories (what I know here is severely limited, though this book is inspiring me to seek more) and The Bible, especially The Old Testament (despite many years [...]
In the Place of Last Things by Michael Helm
In the Place of Last Things was recommended to August, from whom I borrowed it in keeping with the rules I set myself for the Great Canadian Book Challenge, because he’d complained that CanLit doesn’t have “enough blood in it.” Of course, he told me this after I’d already agreed to read it, having no [...]
Too Much Happiness
So, I was home alone on Sunday afternoon; the sky was grey and it was so quiet in my neighborhood that I could hear individual leaves hitting then skidding along the sidewalk. Usually, I like quiet and a little time to myself but for some reason I found myself feeling a little sad. So I [...]
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