Duke Caboom, Canada's Greatest Stuntman, says Yes We Canada!
(What a great surpise in Toy Story 4, to have Keanu Reeves voice Duke!)
(What a great surpise in Toy Story 4, to have Keanu Reeves voice Duke!)
Happy Canada Day!
I didn't officially complete this challenge, because having to write the reviews is always my downfall. I read 20 and reviewed maybe 4. Still, reading these Canadian books makes me a winner in many ways.
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell (audiobook)
A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence
Golden Boy - Grant Matheson (ebook)
A Bird in the House - Margaret Laurence
The Boy on the Bicycle: A Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto - Nate Hendley (ebook)
The Nest - Kenneth Oppel
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
No One Tells You This - Glynnis MacNicol
French Exit - Patrick deWitt
The Italian Teacher - Tom Rachman
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
Murder at McDonald's: The Killers Next Door - Phonse Jessome
Run Hide Repeat - Pauline Dakin
Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
The Golden Tresses of the Dead - Alan Bradley
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
A Dublin Student Doctor - Patrick Taylor
Blink & Caution - Tim Wynne-Jones
The Beggar's Opera - Peggy Blair
The Morningside World of Stuart McLean - Stuart McLean
My favourite book from this group was Murder at McDonald's: The Killers Next Door by Phonse Jessome. A close second is Golden Boy by Grant Matheson. Interestingly, both are nonfiction, and both are from the Maritimes.
Margaret Laurence is reliably awesome, with understated but satisfying reads. I'm just left to read The Diviners by her.
Ongoing series by Alan Bradley, Louise Penny, and Patrick Taylor never disappoint.
There is another edition of the Canadian Book Challenge, #13, so head on over to Canadian Bookworm for all the details.
