We found a lot of reasons to cry this week: over Emily Saso’s brilliant essay about her writing and her relationship with her father, over a certain dog-themed novel that made it onto the 2017 CBC Canada Reads docket, and over the deplorable condition of the current President’s library. Grab some kleenex and read on.
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On the Blog
~ “The more I found myself in books, the more my father found himself in religion, and the further we travelled away from one another.” Novelist Emily Saso hit us right in the feels with her moving essay about her relationship with her father at the release of her book, The Weather Inside (Freehand Books).~ While we officially said goodbye to our #ALUneverforget history series this week, we kept interrogative history alive with a look at Janet Rodgers’ newest poetry collection, Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books): an examination of Indigenous Peoples’ relations with corporate Canada.~ We had tons of fun imagining the movie poster (left) for “Tiebreaker,” a short story from Leesa Dean’s Waiting for the Cyclone (Brindle & Glass).
Around the Web
~ The Canada Reads contenders were announced this week, giving us something to look very forward to in March (and take our minds off of that lousy Smarch weather). We’re excited for all of the finalists, but if you want to know who we’ll be rooting for, just keep on scrolling.~ Donald Trump’s library is a lesson in narcissism and Soviet-level scarcity, in case you needed any more evidence of his ties to either.~ These 10 backwards words made it into the dictionary, which we think is adnik taen.
What Else We’re Reading
As dog-lovers and masochists, we’ll look for pretty much any excuse to re-read Fifteen Dogs, but its induction as a Canada Reads finalist has us really wagging our tails.
