My family always considered reading a favourite pastime. My father enjoyed James Gray and my mother loved Pearl S. Buck. Growing up I read all the books in my parent's and grandmother's library and what ever I could get my hands on from Leacock to Shakespeare, Spillane to Dickens. Looking at my night table I can tell you my taste in literature remains varied; Citizen of the World, the Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Volume One by John English, a collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle including The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, I Used to be Coloured but Now, I'm Black by June Harris, Dancing Backwards by Sharon Carstairs and Tom Higgins and 'ripped from the television screen', Heat Wave and Naked Heat by (?) "Richard Castle".
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book Thirteen has a great review in MacLean's. " has been called Canada's , and the Winnipeg-raised author attracted buzz in the late '90s when her novel The Dry Spell earned a seven-figure advance and was later optioned by Tom Cruise's production company. The Thirteen is a creepy-fun read, with characters ready-made for a Hollywood casting call." Click here to read the review.
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The calm humdrum of an American visa and passport office is shattered by an earthquake that traps its nine occupants. To prevent panic, graduate student Uma proposes that they each tell a story - "one amazing thing" - about their lives. As the stories unfold, your assumptions about family, courage and love will be challenged. Story brings this group of strangers together, but will this rope of hope hold them together long enough to be rescued?
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It's easy to list what books are on my night table. But when I started to compile my list it seemed too obvious a task.
What was of interest to me was what books would be on my characters' bedside tables. The characters from Cul de Sac Moon are avid readers. They read to be inspired, entertained and to learn. It is no mistake that Addie's books are about troubled kids nor is it a surprise that both Sigge and Bernerd pursue their interests through literature. I am very fond of my characters and I really appreciate their literary recommendations. They are three rich and varied lists. I hope you enjoy their suggestions as much as I did.
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is best known for the complexity and intimate nature of her fiction. She is the author of a collection of stories, Small Change, and the novels A Student of Weather, Garbo Laughs and Late Nights on Air. Of the latter, which won the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the jury commented, "this extraordinary book is...a dazzling virtuoso praise song to Canada and things Canadian; but ultimately it is a flawlessly-crafted and timeless story, masterfully told."
Her new novel, Alone in the Classroom, opens in 1930 in Saskatchewan where a school principal is suspected of abusing a student. Seven years later a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. These are only two of the mysteries in the life of Connie Flood that her niece, Anne, tries to unravel. In doing so, Anne becomes connected with her aunt's past, as aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter, in a tense, intricate and seductive novel of emotional triangles masterfully told.
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