About Reptiles on Caffeine Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? I think they will be validated. If they are anything like me, they will be relieved. Stress can manifest itself in all manner of responses, rudeness is very common. It can be hard to deal with [...]
These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada”s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human heart. A dying Finn, a philandering photographer recovering from an emergency splenectomy, a young woman heavy with an hysterical [...]
Sitting Practice is the story of a marriage tested by an accident. Ross Alexander, a caterer for film and television, meets Iliana, a nurse, when he has day surgery on his nose. They date, marry, then, three-and-a-half weeks after the wedding, have a tragic car accident due entirely to Ross’ carelessness. Iliana ends up with [...]
The Sky is Falling, by Caroline Adderson. Thomas Allan. 310 pages. Describe the genesis of The Sky is Falling. When I turned forty a number of years ago – the prime age for a look back — I found myself reflecting on two contrasting periods of my life. One was my early twenties when I [...]
About your book: Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny by Caroline Woodward (Oolichan Books: September, 2010) I hope they will find my contemporary retelling of The Odyssey, complete with a gritty ranching and long haul trucking couple facing overwhelming challenges, to be most memorable. It’s always a bit audacious to take on a Big [...]
Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Cheryl Foggo: Every person alive knows what it’s like to feel out of place. I believe even readers who have never been uprooted will empathize with Maiko for that reason. BCB: Have you acquired any good anecdotes surrounding this book? If so, [...]
About Drive by Saviours Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Chris Benjamin: The majority of Canadians are either immigrants or descendents of immigrants. Each of those two meta-cultures are well represented in our literature (especially the latter). This is a rare story in that it gives equal [...]
Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Claudia Cornwall: I wrote a biography-memoir about Curt Lang because I never met anyone remotely like him. He took more risks, was more inventive, and turned his hand to many more enterprises than anyone else I know. Curt was [...]
About Blue Saltwater: BookClubBuddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Dan Green: Readers will find that the story provides them with a balanced yet realistic view of what may have happened to the victims and survivors of the Indian Residential School System in a manner that grips them emotionally [...]
Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about Stopping for Strangers? Daniel Griffin: These stories are about families, about men and women, thrown together at the edge of crisis. I think it’s only recently that men have started telling domestic stories–tales about family, about parents and children and siblings. That’s one unique [...]
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