scoop.it/t/canadian-literature I am so heartily sick of best of 2014 lists--and Ill grant that is partly because my own book and really great books by friends are seldom found there. It has made me think that best of is terribly presumptuous on the part of those making the headline. What it actually means is best of the books someone or some group has read which of course is never everything--or even close to everything. The lists I have scooped: those that represent the books a single named individual has preferred; those that are local (best of Manitoba, for example). At least these are what they claim to be. That said, there are interesting things related to CanLit in the press lately: Re-Lit Nomination list; review of Jill Wigmores novella Grayling in Malahat; list of prominent Canadians who died in 2014 (as chided by me for omissions in the author group); profile of Sterling Haynes, whose medical doctor memoirs are great reading; Ken Babstock on Surveillance; Christopher Moores Three Weeks in Quebec City: the Meeting that Made Canada; much more.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:57:07 +0000
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