{"id":86,"date":"2010-11-25T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/11\/25\/canada-reads-list\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:45:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:45:33","slug":"canada-reads-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/11\/25\/canada-reads-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Reads List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_sick.gif\" alt=\"Sick\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Sick&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> About to place a scholstic order.&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>Given the BBC List(s) that has (have) been bouncing around Facebook recently, I thought I needed to turn to a more Can-Con list.  Below are the top forty novels of the last ten years as voted on by CBC listeners in the lead up to the 10th Anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadareads\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Canada Reads<\/a>.  I asked myself, how many of these have I read.  Sum total = one.  Am I a bad Canadian because I have only read one of these?  I don&#8217;t think so, but I do think that I am poorer in my knowledge and understanding of Canada. <\/p>\n<p>\n(To be fair to me, I started reading Book of Negroes, but stopped as I had just had my son and with the main character about to take a transatlantic voyage in a room full of pregnant slaves, I knew what was coming, and I knew I needed to walk away.)<\/p>\n<p>So here we go:  Bold if I read it.  Italicized if I started it, but didn&#8217;t finish it.<\/p>\n<p>A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews<\/p>\n<p>Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall<\/p>\n<p>Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright<\/p>\n<p>Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant<\/p>\n<p>Conceit by Mary Novik<\/p>\n<p>Crow Lake by Mary Lawson<\/p>\n<p>Drive-by Saviours by Chris Benjamin<\/p>\n<p>Elle by Douglas Glover<\/p>\n<p>Essex County by Jeff Lemire<\/p>\n<p>Far to Go by Alison Pick<\/p>\n<p>February by Lisa Moore<\/p>\n<p>Galore by Michael Crummey<\/p>\n<p>Heave by Christy Ann Conlin<\/p>\n<p>Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey<\/p>\n<p>Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay<\/p>\n<p>Life of Pi by Yann Martel<\/p>\n<p>Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n<p>Moody Food by Ray Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n<p>Pattern Recognition by William Gibson<\/p>\n<p>Room by Emma Donoghue<\/p>\n<p>Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb<\/p>\n<p>The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis<\/p>\n<p>The Birth House by Ami McKay<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop&#8217;s Man by Linden MacIntyre<\/p>\n<p>The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan<\/p>\n<p>The Fallen by Stephen Finucan<\/p>\n<p>The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon<\/p>\n<p>The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe<\/p>\n<p>The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart<\/p>\n<p>The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n<p>Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden do<\/p>\n<p>Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Unless by Carol Shields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Sick&nbsp;][ Currently: About to place a scholstic order.&nbsp;]Given the BBC List(s) that has (have) been bouncing around Facebook recently, I thought I needed to turn to a more Can-Con list. 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