Gail's Book Odyssey
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Scotch River by Linda Little
Why are so many characters of Canadian fiction just so odd? And yet - we relate to them! Great read about a dysfunctional family - some of whom the reader will care about very deeply - and some with very particular talents.
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A Librarian Reads the G&M Top 100 for 2006
Welcome to my attempt to read the Globe and Mail's Top 100 for 2006
Labels
Canadian fiction
(7)
History
(4)
Politics
(4)
Autobiogarphy
(3)
Canadian non-fiction
(3)
Changed my life
(3)
Climate change
(3)
biography
(3)
page-turner
(3)
science
(3)
Canada
(2)
Dysfunctional family
(2)
Endangered animals
(2)
Murder mystery
(2)
Newfoundland
(2)
One-day read
(2)
Terrorism
(2)
United States
(2)
World War II
(2)
audiobook
(2)
family
(2)
love story
(2)
memoir
(2)
mystery
(2)
non-fiction
(2)
personal memoir
(2)
poetry
(2)
Abolition
(1)
Afghanistan
(1)
Africa
(1)
Australia
(1)
Brilliant
(1)
Britain
(1)
British
(1)
Bush
(1)
CIA
(1)
Caribou
(1)
Colonialism
(1)
Coming of age
(1)
Cooking
(1)
Crippen
(1)
Global warming
(1)
Government
(1)
Hollywood
(1)
Honest
(1)
Internet
(1)
Iraq
(1)
Ireland
(1)
Islam
(1)
JFK
(1)
Japan
(1)
Life on earth
(1)
Logging
(1)
Marconi
(1)
Mob
(1)
Murder
(1)
Nature
(1)
New Brunswick
(1)
New York
(1)
Nova Scotia
(1)
Oil
(1)
Ontario
(1)
Orange Prize
(1)
Osama Bin Laden
(1)
Profound
(1)
Racism
(1)
Saddam Hussein
(1)
Sierra Leone
(1)
Slave trade
(1)
Species extinction
(1)
Terrorists
(1)
The American Revolution
(1)
The French Revolution
(1)
adventure
(1)
autobiograhical
(1)
book club
(1)
books
(1)
canadian politics
(1)
characterization
(1)
comedy
(1)
computer geeks
(1)
depression
(1)
disaster
(1)
experimental novel
(1)
foreign fiction
(1)
graphic novel
(1)
gripping read
(1)
intelligent
(1)
librarian
(1)
lumbermen
(1)
medicine
(1)
paul martin
(1)
philosophy
(1)
prison
(1)
professional librarian
(1)
reading
(1)
realistic
(1)
royalty
(1)
scholarly
(1)
small-town life
(1)
software
(1)
stephen harper
(1)
strange
(1)
weird
(1)
well-written
(1)
wireless telegraphy
(1)
wonderful
(1)
Blog Archive
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2006
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December
(1)
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2007
(44)
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January
(8)
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February
(7)
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March
(1)
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April
(8)
The Creation by E.O. Wilson
Heat - How to Stop the Planet From Burning by Geor...
Rough Crossings - Britain, The Slaves and The Amer...
Scotch River by Linda Little
Cease to Blush by Billie Livingston
Certainty by Madeleine Thien
Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
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May
(2)
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September
(11)
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October
(3)
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November
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December
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