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The Adversary: A Novel | Michael Crummey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjRdaBh2k&t=6s

The first half of this book chat with renowned Saskatchewan novelist and memoirist is about Michael Crummey's Dublin Prize-winning novel The Adversary, which Sharon read twice before we chatted.

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The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks | Stuart McLean

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Overall, a pleasant experience. I'll admit I was confused to start with, as the author has produced works of fiction related to the Vinyl Cafe radio show, but this collection is essays rather than short stories.
A lot are simple moments, what I might term as palate cleansers, but they do occasionally get more involved, heavy, moving, discussing the author's past and present as well as that of Canada and Canadians. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I am charmed to the point of wanting to look into more of his writing.
Perhaps it's the timing of this particular holiday weekend, but it does make me want to look into more (settler) Canadian authors and Indigenous authors representing the nations originally and continuously inhabiting this land. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Favourites from this collection:

The Front Lawn
Safe Places
The Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company
Watermelon

[Loved most of the Reader's Notes section]
Book Buying
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
W.O. Mitchell
Free Books
The Creation of Sam McGee
Leacock Country 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4
The Way Which is Not the Way
Richard Stanfield's Grave
Biking Across Canada
Bridge Walking
Parliament Hill
Motels
My Hello Problem
Spelling
The National Umbrella Collective
The Desk Lamp 1mo

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