has written almost every day of his long life (he's now 91 years old): notebooks, jottings, drafts of letters to heads of state; and perhaps most movingly of all, letters from his long imprisonment on Robben Island. Conversations with Myself is a very personal book, a book of private thoughts and lessons learned. But, as we have come to expect from , this book shines with hope and gentle wisdom. These letters and diaries give readers a chance to share recollections of a long life, fully lived.
Categories: New Releases, Book of the DayOur Winnipeg store will be open on Monday, Feb 20 from noon until 5 o'clock in observance of Louis Riel Day.
Our Saskatoon store will be closed on Monday for Family Day.
Here are a few Bookclub Suggestions from the booksellers of .
The Winter Palace by
Cutting for Stone by
Mr. Fox by
Various Positions by
Happiness Economics by
A Discovery of Witches by
Monoceros by
The Descendants by
Body Trade by is a road novel that follows Rosie and Tanya, two Canadian women who leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America. The haunting story takes a life-defining twist when their search for freedom and adventure brings them into contact with predators of the Central American sex trafficking trade. Finding themselves in a hell on earth, they are forced to make life-and-death choices in this "sophisticated, substantive and poetic" novel
Categories: New Releases, Literature, Book of the Day
You may have heard (perhaps here) that Feb 7th was 200 birthday. We're celebrating with a Charles Dickens Feature with his novels, of course, as well as movie/TV miniseries treatments of his work and recent biographies.
As well, to further honour the occasion, several booksellers are reading this month. I'm reading The Pickwick Papers, which is a real romp, full of humour and without the darkness which inhabits the other novels I've read. Steve Benstead, whose writing you read in our newsletter, is reading Dombey and Son. Several booksellers, Nikki Kuentzle and Liz Treidler from our Winnipeg store and Jordan Hartshorn from our Saskatoon store, are reading Great Expectations. And Courtney Scott, also a bookseller in our Winnipeg store, has taken on David Copperfield.
How about you? Are you reading this February? If you can't manage that kind of commitment may I suggest you watch one of the many movies or TV miniseries made from his novels? I can recommend many though I particularly enjoy the BBC miniseries like Bleak House and Oliver Twist, productions which can take the time to present so much more of the stories than a two-hour movie. For all our suggestions, check out our Charles Dickens Feature.
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