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Finding Me in France
Finding Me in France by Bobbi French Published: 2012 by Creative Publishers Source: Purchased Reading Challenge: Books on France 2013 Reading Challenge Bobbi French is leading a good life on the surface: she is a successful psychiatrist, married to a … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 Reading Challenges, Canadian lit., essays, Francophilia, memoir
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Book Beginnings on Friday
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted at Rose City Reader. It’s really simple: Share the first sentence of the book you are currently reading and what it means to you. My beginning this week is from The Emperor … Continue reading
Posted in book beginnings, Canadian lit., Francophilia
Tagged canadian literature, first sentences, paris
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A Fine Balance and My Connection to Oprah
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Published: 1995 by McClelland & Stewart Source: Purchased After pulling A Fine Balance off of my bookshelf to re-read it for the first time in many years, I am thrilled to say that it … Continue reading
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen — review and giveaway
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor Published: 2003 by Anchor Canada Source: Purchased My favorite book of 2012. Yes, it’s early to make that call, but I just loved loved loved this book. Madame Proust and … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Book Challenge, Canadian lit., fiction, giveaway
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Half Blood Blues
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Published: 2011 by Serpent’s Tail Source: Purchased at an independent bookstore Paris, 1940. Paris has fallen to the Nazis. Anyone who can leave the city does. A group of jazz musicians flee back to … Continue reading
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Far to Go by Alison Pick
Far to Go by Alison Pick Published: 2010 by House of Anansi Press/Harper Collins Canada Source: Purchased This novel begins with a prophetic sentence: “I wish this were a happy story.” Given that much of the narrative is set in … Continue reading
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Practical Jean by Trevor Cole
Practical Jean by Trevor Cole Published: 2010 by McClelland & Stewart Source: Purchased Jean Horemarsh is the kind of woman you wouldn’t normally notice. She lives a quiet life in Kotemee, the town in which she was born and … Continue reading
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The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis Published: 2007 by McLelland & Stewart Source: Purchased (the Canadian edition, eh?) I’m a Canadian girl, and my one complaint about Canadian literature is that most of it is frankly quite depressing … Continue reading
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The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis Published: 2007 by McLelland & Stewart Source: Purchased (the Canadian edition, eh?) I’m a Canadian girl, and my one complaint about Canadian literature is that most of it is frankly quite depressing … Continue reading
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