Saturday, December 30, 2017

Best of December 2017: A Round-up

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Highlights of the best books I read this month: The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto "I just want to have a normal family! But I...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Best of November 2017: A Round-up

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Another thirty days, another thirty books. Here are the highlights of my November reads: Favourite book of November, and possibly o...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Speculative Fiction in Audiobooks

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Hiromi Goto spoke at the University of Alberta yesterday, as part of the Canadian Literature Centre's Brown Bag Lunch Reading series ....
Friday, November 17, 2017

Where It Hurts by Sarah de Leeuw

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These are powerful personal essays about living through pain and surviving loss of all kinds, and violence, and injustice. Beautiful, cath...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Tim Hortons References in Canadian Fiction

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    "Darwin came home before the children went to bed, Lorraine asleep already. He had brought Timbits, assorted. The jelly ones, th...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Indigenous Picture Books and Residential School Ramifications

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These three recent picture books by Indigenous authors make the Canadian residential school experience and its continuing ramifications easi...
Friday, October 13, 2017

A Year of Literary Trepanations

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In 2016, I read six different books that mentioned trepanation. So far in 2017, I have read none. So, I am looking back on 2016 as my Year o...
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