Are old Canadian books not considered summer reads? I ask because the number of reviews this past season fell far short of what I expected. This isn't to suggest that they weren't invaluable. I don't think I'd ever heard of Philippe La Ferrière before reading about him in Jean-Louis Lessard's July Laurentiana review of Philtres et poisons. Olman of Olman's 50 was good enough to share his thoughts Terence M. Green's 1988 novel Barking Dogs. I'd been meaning to read it since... well, 1988 (I'm not quite so keen now). Radhika of Radhika's Reading Retreat reviewed A Jest of God, reviving memories of the first time I read Margaret Laurence.
Here are the links:
Barking Dogs - Terence M. Green
A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence
Paris Stories - Mavis Gallant
I read and reviewed six old, out-of-print, and pretty much forgotten Canadian books this past summer, my favourite being Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich. I laughed out loud.
