Sun, Jan 17, 2010
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, Mary Walsh is engaging, entertaining, and thoroughly a pleasure as she celebrates Hard Light by Michael Crummey a powerful series of short stories and poems about the people of Conception Bay.
Sun, Jan 24, 2010
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, well-known television personality Valerie Pringle celebrates 'Who Has Seen The Wind', the classic novel by W. O. Mitchell.
Sun, Jan 31, 2010
Dancer and television personality Rex Harrington celebrates Stunt, the quirky first novel of Claudia Dey.
Sun, Feb 7, 2010
Justin Trudeau celebrates the book that turned him on to reading: 'This Can't Be Happening At MacDonald Hall' by Gordon Korman, a wonderfully funny story that appeals to the adolescent in all of us.
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Valerie Pringle celebrates The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, an incredibly riveting true story of a man who cuts down a one in a billion tree sacred to the Haida people.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Olympic medal winner Silken Laumann celebrates The Birth House by Ami McKay, a moving novel set on the Bay of Fundy coast in Nova Scotia.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Actress Lisa Ray celebrates the award winning novel Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay. The northern setting and the engaging characters are two of the reasons that Ray has chosen this book.
Sun, Mar 7, 2010
On any 'best' list of great novels, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence is at or near the top. Actress and television personality Mary Walsh celebrates this notoriously brilliant book that she has read many times over.
Sun, Mar 14, 2010
Musician Patricia O'Callaghan celebrates Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, the fictionalized story of a real jazz cornetist who ends up going mad.
Sun, Mar 21, 2010
Singer/songwriter Amy Sky celebrates Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, a book whose gorgeously poetic writing and powerful emotional story has won much international recognition.
Sun, Apr 4, 2010
Few books articulate the creative experience with as much humour and truth as Whale Music by Paul Quarrington which is one of the reasons Patricia O'Callaghan has chosen the book for this episode.
Sun, Apr 11, 2010
Lorne Cardinal hosts this episode of Great Canadian Books, reading from Joseph Boyden's "Three Day Road". This novel follows the journey of two young Cree men, Xavier and Elijah, who volunteer for that war and become snipers during the conflict.