Biography of a BC entrepreneur, Conservative politician under Brian Mulroney, senator. Very interesting story of the late development of Metis pride.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
I AM A METIS
Peter O'Neil. I AM A METIS: The Story of Gerry St. Germain. Harbour, 2016.
Biography of a BC entrepreneur, Conservative politician under Brian Mulroney, senator. Very interesting story of the late development of Metis pride.
Biography of a BC entrepreneur, Conservative politician under Brian Mulroney, senator. Very interesting story of the late development of Metis pride.
Monday, April 1, 2019
RU
Kim Thuy. RU. Vintage Canada, 2012.
Beautiful. Poetic. Experiences of a privileged female driven from home by war to a new life elsewhere, in Quebec.
Beautiful. Poetic. Experiences of a privileged female driven from home by war to a new life elsewhere, in Quebec.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
SILENT FLOWERS
Dorothy Price, Editor. Nanae Ito, Illustrator. SILENT FLOWERS: A New Collection of Japanese Haiku Poems. Hallmark, 1967.
Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches.
Ancient haiku, beautifully illustrated with watercolour sketches.
BUDDHISM FOR BEARS
Claire Nielson. Chris Riddell, Illustration. BUDDHISM FOR BEARS. Ebury, 1998.
Accessible. Beautifully illustrated.
Accessible. Beautifully illustrated.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Paula Hawkins. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. Doubleday, 2014.
Hawthorne Book Club selection for April. I had to get up in the middle of the night to read more. Very engaging plot. Thriller. Set in 2013 in suburban London, UK. Involves substance use, blackouts, relationships, and a missing woman.
Hawthorne Book Club selection for April. I had to get up in the middle of the night to read more. Very engaging plot. Thriller. Set in 2013 in suburban London, UK. Involves substance use, blackouts, relationships, and a missing woman.
ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM
Elizabeth Hay. ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM. McClelland and Stewart, 2011.
A Hawthorne Book Club selection for March. Loved this literary fiction which sucks us in with hints of murder and abuse and then presents a story of an almost invisible narrator discovering herself through researching family history and genealogy.Love how she distinguished between the facts we can find out and the things we will never know about the past and our ancestors who were there. Set in Saskatchewan in 1929 and then in Ontario in the end of the twentieth century.
A Hawthorne Book Club selection for March. Loved this literary fiction which sucks us in with hints of murder and abuse and then presents a story of an almost invisible narrator discovering herself through researching family history and genealogy.Love how she distinguished between the facts we can find out and the things we will never know about the past and our ancestors who were there. Set in Saskatchewan in 1929 and then in Ontario in the end of the twentieth century.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
THE BEAT GOES ON
Ian Rankin. The BEAT GOES ON: THE COMPLETE REBUS SHORT STORIES. Orion, 2014.
I still love Rebus. I always enjoy short story collections. One or two of these were familiar from earlier editions. I especially enjoyed Rankin's essay at the end about the origins of Rebus which also includes a sort of "portrait of the writer as a young man" and the realization for the writer that the city itself is an important character.
I still love Rebus. I always enjoy short story collections. One or two of these were familiar from earlier editions. I especially enjoyed Rankin's essay at the end about the origins of Rebus which also includes a sort of "portrait of the writer as a young man" and the realization for the writer that the city itself is an important character.
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