Recent Posts Tagged With 'canada reads 2009'

• TSS - Canada Reads: Spotlight on The Book of Negroes (& special contest)

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 15:39 in the sunday salon, canada reads 2009

  The Book  The Book of Negroes   Lawrence Hill  HarperCollins  © 2007 “Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, dear reader, ...

• TSS – Canada Reads: Spotlight on Mercy Among The Children

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 01:48 in the sunday salon, canada reads 2009

  The Book  Mercy Among The Children  David Adams Richards Anchor Canada / Random House  ©2000 At the age of twelve, Sydney Henderson pushes his friend Connie Devlin from the church roof. Looking down on Connie’s motionless ...

• TSS – Canada Reads: Highlight on Fruit by Brian Francis

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 02:11 in canada reads 2009

  The Book Fruit  Brian Francis ECW Press  ©2004 What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, a 200-pound thirteen-year-old with a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe, and throw in a couple ...

• TSS – CanadaReads 2009

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 02:02 in the sunday salon, canada reads 2009

  In the upcoming weeks I am going to be using my Sunday Salon posts to write about an amazing Canadian literary event that is happening right now – Canada Reads 2009 presented by CBC Radio  Today I’m going to try to give you an idea of j...