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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. 1951. Book club choice for June, 2025. 75 years after it was first published. Sci-fi , dystopian but scary. ...
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Bully for You Can you believe it? I just heard it on the news--that still at least a third of the school districts (meaning countless number...
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March 20, 2016 Basil H. Johnston and Maxine Noel (Ioyan Mani) Tales of the Anishinaubaek Basil H. Johnston, Tales of the Anishina... -
Katerena Vermette. The Break. Anansi, 2016. Re-reading this book for the U of M book club. Like it even more now that I look more closely....
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A friend responded that Canadian content would not be high on her list. I realize how much I benefited by having my university years coincide with all the Centennial hoopla--Pride. Identity. etc. But also, as a former English teacher, I really feel that the absence of knowledge about Canadian literature is a reflection of the failure of our education system. Outdated, borrowed from imperial nations UK & USA, by colonized minds who think literature is the writing of dead people from other places, a canon, rather than a living art created by real people helping other real people understand themselves and their place in the world.
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