Title: YOU comma Idiot Author: Doug Harris Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 328 Genre: Fiction Source: Review copy from the LibraryThing EarlyReviewers program From the cover: “You’re the kind of guy who falls in love after one date.” Marginalized and alienated, perennial fuck-up Lee Goodstone is a resounding zero: a low-rent hash-dealer with delusions of inadequacy. [...]
Title: Obasan Author: Joy Kogawa Publication Year: 1981 Pages: 300 Genre: Historical Fiction Source: Borrowed from a classroom bookshelf From the cover: This powerful, passionate and highly acclaimed novel tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved 5 year [...]
Today is December 6th, which is recognized in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action On Violence Against Women. The reason this is marked on December 6th is because it is the anniversary of the Montréal Massacre in 1989, when 14 young women were killed at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Here’s a brief [...]
Title: Libertad Author: Alma Fullerton Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 224 Genre: Fiction, Verse Source: A school library From the cover: When a freak accident kills their mother, Libertad and his little brother Julio are no longer safe living on their own near the Guatemala City Dump. Libertad knows that surviving by their wits alone won’t [...]
