There are few things in life people get as passionate about as books. If we love it, we LOVE it and insist that everyone we know also read it and LOVE it. Here are the books that I LOVE and would keep on my night table forever, even if it meant being unable to find my glasses or the alarm clock.
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A recent favourite is Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell about a Ukranian family who endure endless struggles without complaint as they begin a new life in Canada. This book haunted me for days after I finished it. I kept thinking about the choices made by the characters and how courageous early settlers were. Since reading it, I've acquired a newfound interest in the sod-house at the Manitoba Museum.
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden is the story of two characters, one a retired, alcoholic bush pilot and the other a young woman searching for her sister, living in a northern, Aboriginal community. The voices of the characters are so convincing, I kept checking the author bio to make sure he really was a man in his thirties. This is my favourite kind of book to read-a great story, characters you care about and a story that could only be told by a Canadian.
A true epic, The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson is one of the best stories I have ever read. Drawing the reader so completely into a world within a world, it was hard to leave the book and attend to the banality of the real world. A lot of housework went undone in the days it took me to finish it.
No night table would be complete with out a smattering of children's books. Frequently littering my night table are Robert Munsch?s The Paper Bag Princess, The Hockey Card by Jack Siemiatycki and Avi Slodovnick and Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt; all LOVED by my two boys.
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Colleen Nelson wrote one chapter of a book as an assignment for a writing class. Four years and numerous drafts later, her first book, Tori by Design has now been published by Great Plains Teen Fiction and was launched at our Grant Park store in April. The mother of two young boys and a junior high teacher, Colleen has lived in Japan and New York City, but currently resides with her husband in Winnipeg.
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