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Archive for January, 2009
Laura’s List & Reviews
Favourite Novels In Order (book/series/author) 1.Masquerade/Blue Bloods No.2/Melissa De la Cruz 2.Vampire Academy/Vampire Academy No.1/Richelle Mead 3.Pretty Little Liars/Pretty Little Liars No.1/Sara Shepard 4.Eclipse/Twilight Saga No.3/Stephenie Meyer 5.Blue Bloods/Blue Bloods No.1/Melissa De la Cruz 6.The Naming/Pellinor Quartet No.1/Alsion Croggon 7.Twilight/Twilight Saga No.1/Stephenie Meyer 8.Brisingr/Inheritance Cycle No.3/Christopher Paolini 9.East/Edith Pattou 10.Prophecy of the Stones/Flavia Bujor Favourite [...]
January 15-22 – Top Books
Skeena Stories – Strangers No More, Skeena Diversity Project Eclipse – Twilight Saga – Book 3, Stephenie Meyer Notes from the North, Alice Chiko Twilight – Twilight Saga – Book 1, Stephenie Meyer Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen Obama – From Promise to [...]
Shelby R.’s Picks
I LOVE, love, love many of the <fill in the blank> for Dummies and the <fill in the blank> for Idiots books. They’re fun and I always learn something! Great Expectations, Charles Dickens I know, a lot of folks were TORTURED by having to read this novel in literature classes, but I adored it, and [...]
Giller Scotiabank Winners – 2008
Joseph Boyden for his novel Through Black Spruce, published by Viking Canada Anthony De Sa for his collection of short stories Barnacle Love, published by Doubleday Canada Marina Endicott for her novel Good to A Fault, published by Freehand Books/Broadview Press Rawi Hage for his novel Cockroach, published by House of Anansi Press Mary Swan [...]
Jan.-April 2009 Book Club Reading List
Everyone is welcome at the Misty River Book Club. We meet at 7:00 p.m., the last Thursday of each month. If you have any questions, give us a call at 250-635-4428. January: Stone Angel In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year old woman struggling to come [...]
2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards
Fiction Nino Ricci, Toronto, The Origin of Species. (Doubleday Canada) Alex Fratarcangeli, a modern Prufrock, must survive in the multiethnic complexity of Montreal in the 1980s. The Origin of Species is written with great humanity, realism and wit. Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory. [...]
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