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Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
It’s been a while since my last post, but a recent book has made me feel the need to renew my writing here. This book is Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, published in 2012 before the author’s death in 2017. Aside from his brilliant writing, Wagamese’s work feels special to me because he was writing…
Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat (Book Review)
Farley Mowat’s 1963 novel Never Cry Wolf follows the author on an expedition through the Canadian Artic. He is tasked with studying wolves and making a conclusion regarding the reason for the rapid decline of the Caribou population in the area. The book has been classified by many as almost entirely fictional, though Mowat did…
Lawrence Hill -The Book of Negroes
Every so often I know that I’m going to feel like I’m doing a novel a disservice by writing a 500 or so word blurb about my surface thoughts on it. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill is one of those novels. I am in no position to truly understand the complexities of the…
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