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Jun. 14th, 2003
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A pile of books
Jun. 14th, 2003 05:58 pmon my living room floor. Some are recent purchases, some old favourites imported from Hongcouver, still others have migrated from past piles of "to do" reading.
They include have-reads:
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Naomi Klein. Rarely does a book capture or catalyze a social movement--this arguably does both. And she's a Canucklehead!
Fall On Your Knees Anne Marie McDonald. Epic story of a Cape Breton family, compelling and challenging. Aussi Canucklehead.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Wayne Johnston. Newfoundland, Canada's Easternmost province, didn't join Canada until 1949. The life of the man who brought Newfies into the Canuck fold--Joey Smallwood--is rendered into a novel featuring his (fictive?) mistress. Anyone who's read The Shipping News and thinks it captures the essence of Newfoundlandness, thing again--this is the book. Encore Canucklehead.
GEIST magazine. This is me loving the Canadian intellectual & cultural communities.
SPSS 11 for the Mac user's manual. Bleh.
But also to-reads:
Clara Callan Richard Wright. Won most of Canada's literary awards a couple of years ago. My pal Sherry in Hongcouver raved about it...and she introduced me to The Poisonwood Bible, so I trust her. Implicitly
Felicia's Journey William Trevor. He's Irish, of note and I've not ready anything he's written. About time I did.
The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research Glaser & Strauss. For work. Grounded Theory is getting more and more currency in social science research, and I need to bone up on it. Figuratively speaking...
Next Episode Hubert Aquin. Recently selected for Canada Reads (over "Colony"). The story of a Québec nationalist (separatist), recently discharged from a Swiss mental hospital...by a Québec nationalist recently discharged from a Swiss mental hospital.
The Heart Laid Bare Michel Tremblay. He's queer, québecois and quite probably will win the Nobel Lit Prize in about 30 years.
Journal of Homosexuality A review copy, not an instructional manual.
Learning about HIV/AIDS in the Meshwork. Research monograph on local knowledges regarding HIV/AIDS in Nova Scotia, a project coordinated by Donovan Plumb, a colleague at Mount Saint Vincent's University in Halifax.
So I've got a lot of reading to do!
They include have-reads:
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Naomi Klein. Rarely does a book capture or catalyze a social movement--this arguably does both. And she's a Canucklehead!
Fall On Your Knees Anne Marie McDonald. Epic story of a Cape Breton family, compelling and challenging. Aussi Canucklehead.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Wayne Johnston. Newfoundland, Canada's Easternmost province, didn't join Canada until 1949. The life of the man who brought Newfies into the Canuck fold--Joey Smallwood--is rendered into a novel featuring his (fictive?) mistress. Anyone who's read The Shipping News and thinks it captures the essence of Newfoundlandness, thing again--this is the book. Encore Canucklehead.
GEIST magazine. This is me loving the Canadian intellectual & cultural communities.
SPSS 11 for the Mac user's manual. Bleh.
But also to-reads:
Clara Callan Richard Wright. Won most of Canada's literary awards a couple of years ago. My pal Sherry in Hongcouver raved about it...and she introduced me to The Poisonwood Bible, so I trust her. Implicitly
Felicia's Journey William Trevor. He's Irish, of note and I've not ready anything he's written. About time I did.
The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research Glaser & Strauss. For work. Grounded Theory is getting more and more currency in social science research, and I need to bone up on it. Figuratively speaking...
Next Episode Hubert Aquin. Recently selected for Canada Reads (over "Colony"). The story of a Québec nationalist (separatist), recently discharged from a Swiss mental hospital...by a Québec nationalist recently discharged from a Swiss mental hospital.
The Heart Laid Bare Michel Tremblay. He's queer, québecois and quite probably will win the Nobel Lit Prize in about 30 years.
Journal of Homosexuality A review copy, not an instructional manual.
Learning about HIV/AIDS in the Meshwork. Research monograph on local knowledges regarding HIV/AIDS in Nova Scotia, a project coordinated by Donovan Plumb, a colleague at Mount Saint Vincent's University in Halifax.
So I've got a lot of reading to do!
