photo by ldyck
Your favourite book based on how many page views the book review received.
If you click the title the link will take you to my book review. If you click the publisher it will take you to their web site.
2012
The Sentimentalist
Johanna Shibrub
psychological fiction
Douglas & McIntyre
won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize
a daughter gets to know her father
2013
Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
historical fiction
Dundurn Press
won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize
set in Paris during 1940, a jazz musician is arrested by the Nazis
2014
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
historical fiction
Douglas & McIntyre
won the Blurt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature in 2013
an aboriginal hockey player journeys back through his life
2015
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood
literary fiction
McClelland & Stewart
an imprint of Penguin Random House
three women's three-decade troubled relationship with a woman named Zenia
2016
Burn
Paula Weston
young adult fantasy
Tundra Books
an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
the fourth and final book in the Rephaim series
2017
Short
Holly Goldberg Sloan
middle grade
Dial Books for Young Readers
Penguin Young Readers Group
about a short girl in the big adult world of theater
2018
The Birth House
Ami McKay
historical fiction
Vintage Canada
a division of Random House Canada
chronicles Dora Rare's life as she learns the ancient healing science of midwifery
note: what's the difference between a division and an imprint?
Bookjobs defines division as a branch of a publishing company and imprint as the identifying name of a specific line of books
2019
A Wake for the Dreamland
Laurel Deedrick-Mayne
historical fiction
Friesen Press
about the faithfulness and devotion of enduring friendship
What will you read this year?
I have enticing suggestions. For example...
Next Sunday evening...
Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline
Will Joan find her husband? Where did he go? Did the rogarou get him? What is a rogarou?
"snow" by ldyck
Sharing my author journey...
I've been working on expanding a manuscript that I've been working on for a while. It's a collection of knitting-themed
writing. This requires re-reading and re-writing some old stories.
During my revisions I've noticed a repeated attempt to "sound fancy". By that I mean something like...
Having observed my passion for knot tying.
I far prefer...
The year I turned seven--or maybe eight or...--I spent hours knotting string.
Which to our prefer?
"Abby in the snow" by ldyck
