Canadian Book Challenge 4: My Wussy American Self Falls Short Again
This challenge is almost at an end, and I'm not going to be able to complete it successfully. If I had an airplane I still couldn't make it on time. Eleven books. Close, but no Canadian cigar. No celebratory mug of Moosehead. No congratulatory call from Alex Trebek -- but don't cry for me, Nova Scotia. I'm smiling through my maple leaf-shaped tears, because I made some excellent reading discoveries this year and after all, there's always Canadian Book Challenge #5, eh?
Here's my list for the year:
1. Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers - Anne Petrie.
2. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler.
3. The Diviners - Margaret Laurence.
4. Piling Blood - Al Purdy.
5. To Paris Never Again - Al Purdy.
6. Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir - Graham Roumieu.
7. The Cariboo Horses - Al Purdy.
8. The Tenderness of Wolves - Steph Penney.
9. Room - Emma Donoghue.
10. 50 Below Zero - Robert Munsch.
11. The Road Past Altamont - Gabrielle Roy.
5 comments:
Forget the book “Go the F**k to Sleep”, a pathetic, soul-less, allegedly rebel, ‘children’s book’. Don’t waste your hard-earned money, instead read a BANNED book like “America Deceived II” by a real rebel and the “World’s Most Hated Author”, E.A. Blayre III.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
Congratulations on discovering some new books and authors, even if you didn't "technically" finish the challenge!
Bybee, You almost made it, and I think it's great you found some new Canadian authors that you enjoy. Good work!
Congratulations on finishing! I signed up for the same challenge but never got around to actually participating! :-)
Always glad to have you join us. And as I'm Canadian, I'd share a Moosehead with you, 13 or not. Trebek, on the other hand, will not call. He's pretty firm on that.
(By the way, our tears aren't maple-leaf shaped, but they are maple syrup.)
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