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Flitting Through Canadian Fiction

http://flitscanadianfiction.blogspot.com/

Flit's fiction blog - now with more Canadian content

• Added on: Apr 18th, 2009
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: flit
• Listed in: Books Education & Learning
• Tags: book reviews Canadian Authors writers' festival canadian literature canadian fiction canadian publishers

Recent Posts

• The Dragon Book

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 11:39 in garth nix, naomi novik, jane yolen, gardner dozois, diana gabaldon, liz williams, penguin canada, peter s. beagle, the dragon book, jack dann

  This week when we got back from Peterborough, there was a new book from Penguin Canada waiting for me. A collection of never-before published stories, The Dragon Book features - you guessed it - stories about dragons.Lots & lots of dragons. Big f...

• My ~New~ Book - Seeds of Pine

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 21:16 in canadian fiction, canadian nonfiction

  On the way home from Peterborough today, Ross & I stopped at an antique shop. Lots of WAY cool stuff - including a $5000 desk that I am now coveting....and $600+ light fixtures that would be PERFECT in our Peterborough house.Actually, also makes ...

• Still Around

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 01:01

  Funny, isn't it? Now that I am in Canadian Studies, I just don't seem to have much time for reading Canadian fiction.Obviously, I am going to have to make time for it again! I'm going into withdrawal.Right at the moment though, I'm mostly engaged in ...

• The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 10:09 in penguin canada, hamish hamilton, having faith in the polar girls prison, cathleen with, reif larsen, the selected works of t.s. spivet

  The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is the last of the books I added to use as an exemplars for my major research paper on fiction for emerging adults (18 - 25 year olds). I had intended to use Slam! by Nicholas Hornby, but was never as enthusiastic ab...

• Too Many Girls!

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 10:33 in University, research, canadian fiction, emerging adults

  I have decided that I have too many emerging adult girls in my facebook connections and not enough boys.My paper on emerging adults and Canadian publishing kept running into issues because of my not having been able to push the Internet survey bit th...

• Archival Research

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 20:06

  Went to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library to go through Mavis Gallant's manuscript collection there (the answer to your question, Phyl) .... and yes, once it's done, you'll be able to read it on the Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing we...

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