Gail Bowen will be in our Winnipeg bookstore, Saturday May 8, 2:00 pm.
Gail Bowen -- Night Table Recommendations
For over thirty years, I led three lives: I was first, a wife, parent and grandparent; second, an academic, and third, a writer. By the time I'd finished with Walter, the Farting Dog (a book which, as the owner of a farting dog, I highly recommend); reviewed whatever was new, hot and student-friendly in Canadian lit and met my own writing deadlines, I didn't have much time to read the way I read when I was a kid - with passion and without plan.
Two years ago, I retired from university teaching. Since then, I've been making up for lost time. Here are some books that I've read and loved within the last month.
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, Authors, Mystery & Crime, Saskatoon, Winnipeg
All My Friends are Superheroes by (Coach House Books)
The perfect length for visiting friends and relatives to finish before they've overstayed their welcome. Original, witty, fun and touching, Andrew Kaufman's novel All My Friends are Superheroes should be on every guest room night table. Just check their bags before they leave.
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, Authors
Too Bad by (University of Alberta)
Kroetsch has created a lot of wonderful stuff and he keeps doing something different. In this, his latest book, he writes an hilarious autobiography of sorts in short and highly readable poems. They combine childhood memories and often embarrassing stories about his life as an adult writer. If at some point you don't laugh out loud or feel a catch in your thoughts you aren't reading. Almost everyone has noted the humour in Kroetsch's books; we have less often noticed the anguish that is in them. This book gives us both in a fresh and winning way.
Categories: Reviews, Poetry, Discussions, Authors
Reading is a journey - an opportunity to explore the unknown. When I read, a book must meet this expectation, transporting me to different parts of the globe and acquainting me with the arts of a foreign culture. Two examples of this which I am currently reading are A Girl Made of Dust by and The Calligrapher's Daughter by .
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, Authors
The books I'm reading are piled high on the chest at the end of my bed and are also scattered throughout the house: on the 'telephone' table, the footstool in the living room,
in the bathroom. I tend to put books where I'll get to them as I move through my day: there's another small pile where I eat my breakfast-some quick reads-manuscripts to glance at and assess or books I might review. At the moment, because I'm working on many writing projects and in four different genres, what I'm reading has to have a personal valence or nutrient: this is reading as survival, and they are books that have no relationship to anything I *have* to do.
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