What every Canadian should read in 2004

Feb 24 2004

Jody posted this at 7:59 pm under reading & writing

CBC radio has an annual debate to determine what book every Canadian should read. This year they choose Guy Vanderhaeghe’s "The Last Crossing". The winners from previous years are:

I haven’t read any of them.

# tommyboyon 11 Oct 2005 at 9:42 pm

I think everyone should read Rule of the Bone
# Jodyon 11 Oct 2005 at 9:49 pm

I think so too.

Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks.

The way I feel about every book is this: you don’t finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn’t write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn’t have to write again, and I wouldn’t want to. That’s not true for everyone, but it’s true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven’t managed to do it.

- Russel Banks

I just discovered it’s being made into a movie.

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