Tag: Canadian Book Challenge

• Kilmeny of the Orchard

  Kilmeny had been, she knew not where, And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare; Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew, Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew. That’s the only bit I can ever remember from James Hogg’s spooky poem ‘Kilmeny’, but I’ve always loved its haunting quality.…

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  October 5, 2012

  Canadian Book Challenge, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kilmeny of the Orchard

• A Tale of WW2 That Will Break Your Heart

  If you’re the kind of person who cries over books, make sure you’ve got a large hanky ready and waiting when you read Alison Pick’s Far To Go, because it’s beautifully written, totally gripping – and very, very sad. Set in Czechoslovakia in the final few months before the outbreak of the Second World War,…

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  August 13, 2012

  Alison Pick, Canadian Book Challenge, Czechoslovakia, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kinder Transport. Jews. Hitler, WW2

• Canadian Reading

  My reading list for July included a self-set challenge to read something by a Canadian – other than Margaret Atwood, Guy Gavriel Kay and Lucy M Montgomery – because I know nothing whatsoever about the country or its writers. So I’ve started with Runaway, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, since she was…

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  July 30, 2012

  Alice Munro, Canadian Book Challenge, Runaway