#canadianliterature — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #canadianliterature, aggregated by home.social.
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What does it (or can it) really mean to decide for or against #Motherhood in this day and age is the question Sheila Heti grapples with in her 2018 book of the same name
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What does it (or can it) really mean to decide for or against #Motherhood in this day and age is the question Sheila Heti grapples with in her 2018 book of the same name
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What does it (or can it) really mean to decide for or against #Motherhood in this day and age is the question Sheila Heti grapples with in her 2018 book of the same name
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REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-falling-into-sinkhole-jake-beka-2026/
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REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-falling-into-sinkhole-jake-beka-2026/
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REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-falling-into-sinkhole-jake-beka-2026/
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REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-falling-into-sinkhole-jake-beka-2026/
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REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-falling-into-sinkhole-jake-beka-2026/
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Latest on the blog: a short poem by the father of Canadian poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
Set in the cold and silent month of February, "The Brook in February" captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
As always, vocabulary exercise included!
https://grammaticus.blog/2026/02/25/the-brook-in-february-roberts/
#poem #poetry #canada #canadianliterature #winter #february #englishteacher #learningenglish
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Latest on the blog: a short poem by the father of Canadian poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
Set in the cold and silent month of February, "The Brook in February" captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
As always, vocabulary exercise included!
https://grammaticus.blog/2026/02/25/the-brook-in-february-roberts/
#poem #poetry #canada #canadianliterature #winter #february #englishteacher #learningenglish
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Latest on the blog: a short poem by the father of Canadian poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
Set in the cold and silent month of February, "The Brook in February" captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
As always, vocabulary exercise included!
https://grammaticus.blog/2026/02/25/the-brook-in-february-roberts/
#poem #poetry #canada #canadianliterature #winter #february #englishteacher #learningenglish
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Latest on the blog: a short poem by the father of Canadian poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
Set in the cold and silent month of February, "The Brook in February" captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
As always, vocabulary exercise included!
https://grammaticus.blog/2026/02/25/the-brook-in-february-roberts/
#poem #poetry #canada #canadianliterature #winter #february #englishteacher #learningenglish
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Latest on the blog: a short poem by the father of Canadian poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
Set in the cold and silent month of February, "The Brook in February" captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
As always, vocabulary exercise included!
https://grammaticus.blog/2026/02/25/the-brook-in-february-roberts/
#poem #poetry #canada #canadianliterature #winter #february #englishteacher #learningenglish
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“The Brook in February” by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943) was a prominent Canadian author and public intellectual, often referred to as the father of Canadian poetry. He wrote numerous works of fiction, but he also did a lot of nature and travel writing, largely focused on Canadian themes.
The short poem presented here was first published in his collection “The Book of the Native” in 1896. Set in the cold and silent month of February, it captures the tension between winter’s stillness and the hidden vitality of the coming spring.
If you’re an English language learner, don’t miss the vocabulary exercise found below! (Answer key available.)
A snowy path for squirrel and fox,
It winds between the wintry firs.
Snow-muffled are its iron rocks,
And o'er its stillness nothing stirs.
But low, bend low a listening ear!
Beneath the mask of moveless white
A babbling whisper you shall hear—
Of birds and blossoms, leaves and light.VOCABULARY EXERCISE
Match the following words from the poem with the definitions:
WIND (v.) | FIR (n.) | MUFFLED (adj.) | BABBLE (v.) | BLOSSOM (n.)
- wrapped up, enveloped
- to make the low, continuous noise of water flowing over stones
- a small flower on a tree or plant
- an evergreen tree with leaves like needles
- to have many twists and bends
To check your answers, please click here.
ADDITIONAL LINKS
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
E-book versions of C. G. D. Roberts’ works (Project Gutenberg)
NOTES
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#Canada #CanadianLiterature #CharlesGeorgeDouglasRoberts #English #EnglishVocabulary #February #learningEnglish #literature #nature #poem #poetry #readingSkills #winter -
Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!
#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit
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Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!
#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit
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Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!
#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit
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Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!
#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit
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Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!
#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit
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The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.
#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover
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The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.
#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover
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The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.
#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover
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The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.
#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover
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The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.
#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover
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CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?
Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.
Bonne lecture!
#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#CanadianLiterature
#IndustrialFood
#AgriFood
#FactoryFarming
#Farming
#Pork
#Pigs
#Bacon
#Eggs
#Toast
#Farmaggedon
#PhilipLymery
#IsabelOakeshott
#BrianBrett -
CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?
Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.
Bonne lecture!
#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#CanadianLiterature
#IndustrialFood
#AgriFood
#FactoryFarming
#Farming
#Pork
#Pigs
#Bacon
#Eggs
#Toast
#Farmaggedon
#PhilipLymery
#IsabelOakeshott
#BrianBrett -
CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?
Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.
Bonne lecture!
#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#CanadianLiterature
#IndustrialFood
#AgriFood
#FactoryFarming
#Farming
#Pork
#Pigs
#Bacon
#Eggs
#Toast
#Farmaggedon
#PhilipLymery
#IsabelOakeshott
#BrianBrett -
CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?
Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.
Bonne lecture!
#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#CanadianLiterature
#IndustrialFood
#AgriFood
#FactoryFarming
#Farming
#Pork
#Pigs
#Bacon
#Eggs
#Toast
#Farmaggedon
#PhilipLymery
#IsabelOakeshott
#BrianBrett -
CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?
Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.
Bonne lecture!
#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#CanadianLiterature
#IndustrialFood
#AgriFood
#FactoryFarming
#Farming
#Pork
#Pigs
#Bacon
#Eggs
#Toast
#Farmaggedon
#PhilipLymery
#IsabelOakeshott
#BrianBrett -
ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.
Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts
#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books
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ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.
Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts
#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books
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ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.
Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts
#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books
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ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.
Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts
#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books
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ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.
Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts
#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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The Governor General’s Literary Awards are awarded annually to the best English-language and French-language books in each of seven categories – Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Young People’s Literature (Text and Illustrated Books), and Translations.
This year’s winners and nominees are available in accessible formats at NNELS (login required): https://nnels.ca/relations/governor-generals-literary-awards
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At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.
Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.
#cancon #cancon2025 #canadiansf #canadianfantasy #canadianhorror #canadianauthors #canlit #canadianliterature #sffh #bookmarket #bookfair #ottawa #ottawaevents
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At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.
Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.
#cancon #cancon2025 #canadiansf #canadianfantasy #canadianhorror #canadianauthors #canlit #canadianliterature #sffh #bookmarket #bookfair #ottawa #ottawaevents
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At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.
Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.
#cancon #cancon2025 #canadiansf #canadianfantasy #canadianhorror #canadianauthors #canlit #canadianliterature #sffh #bookmarket #bookfair #ottawa #ottawaevents
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At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.
Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.
#cancon #cancon2025 #canadiansf #canadianfantasy #canadianhorror #canadianauthors #canlit #canadianliterature #sffh #bookmarket #bookfair #ottawa #ottawaevents
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At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.
Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.
#cancon #cancon2025 #canadiansf #canadianfantasy #canadianhorror #canadianauthors #canlit #canadianliterature #sffh #bookmarket #bookfair #ottawa #ottawaevents
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Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" impressed me.
Whether one thinks of it as a set of linked short stories or as novel, the book clearly belongs to that line of North American fictions representing slices of small town life of which Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg Ohio" is a notable early example.
Munro's work includes sharp observations of female friendship, mother daughter relations, and the limits of provincial cultural life. One story depicts a middle aged man engaged in unsolicited sexual display in front of the young female protagonist; this scene is at once utterly grotesque and totally unforgettable.
I'd strongly recommend "Lives of Girls and Women" . Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not be as lucky as me when I picked up my Penguin copy for a dollar!
#Books #ShortStories #AliceMunro #CanadianLiterature #Fiction #NorthAmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish
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Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" impressed me.
Whether one thinks of it as a set of linked short stories or as novel, the book clearly belongs to that line of North American fictions representing slices of small town life of which Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg Ohio" is a notable early example.
Munro's work includes sharp observations of female friendship, mother daughter relations, and the limits of provincial cultural life. One story depicts a middle aged man engaged in unsolicited sexual display in front of the young female protagonist; this scene is at once utterly grotesque and totally unforgettable.
I'd strongly recommend "Lives of Girls and Women" . Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not be as lucky as me when I picked up my Penguin copy for a dollar!
#Books #ShortStories #AliceMunro #CanadianLiterature #Fiction #NorthAmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish
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Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" impressed me.
Whether one thinks of it as a set of linked short stories or as novel, the book clearly belongs to that line of North American fictions representing slices of small town life of which Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg Ohio" is a notable early example.
Munro's work includes sharp observations of female friendship, mother daughter relations, and the limits of provincial cultural life. One story depicts a middle aged man engaged in unsolicited sexual display in front of the young female protagonist; this scene is at once utterly grotesque and totally unforgettable.
I'd strongly recommend "Lives of Girls and Women" . Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not be as lucky as me when I picked up my Penguin copy for a dollar!
#Books #ShortStories #AliceMunro #CanadianLiterature #Fiction #NorthAmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish
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Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" impressed me.
Whether one thinks of it as a set of linked short stories or as novel, the book clearly belongs to that line of North American fictions representing slices of small town life of which Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg Ohio" is a notable early example.
Munro's work includes sharp observations of female friendship, mother daughter relations, and the limits of provincial cultural life. One story depicts a middle aged man engaged in unsolicited sexual display in front of the young female protagonist; this scene is at once utterly grotesque and totally unforgettable.
I'd strongly recommend "Lives of Girls and Women" . Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not be as lucky as me when I picked up my Penguin copy for a dollar!
#Books #ShortStories #AliceMunro #CanadianLiterature #Fiction #NorthAmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish
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Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" impressed me.
Whether one thinks of it as a set of linked short stories or as novel, the book clearly belongs to that line of North American fictions representing slices of small town life of which Sherwood Anderson's "Winesberg Ohio" is a notable early example.
Munro's work includes sharp observations of female friendship, mother daughter relations, and the limits of provincial cultural life. One story depicts a middle aged man engaged in unsolicited sexual display in front of the young female protagonist; this scene is at once utterly grotesque and totally unforgettable.
I'd strongly recommend "Lives of Girls and Women" . Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not be as lucky as me when I picked up my Penguin copy for a dollar!
#Books #ShortStories #AliceMunro #CanadianLiterature #Fiction #NorthAmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish