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21 December 2025

Dusty CanLit Autumn Reads


What a difference a season makes, twenty-two thousand little hours.

Three months ago, I was bemoaning the slim summer haul.

Well, this past autumn saw reviews of old Canadian books from eleven bloggers other than myself. Twenty-seven titles in total!

It warms the heart on a cold December day. 








I'm torn as to which to recommend most, but you can't go wrong with The InvestigatorThe Magpie or Wild Geese.

Must add that the season also saw the release of Contes de Noël d'antan au Québec, a new anthology edited by Jean-Louis Lessard of Laurentiana fame. It can be purchased here through Archambault. Better yet, buy it directly from the publisher Éditions GID.


Félicitations, Jean-Louis!

22 September 2025

Dusty CanLit Summer Reviews


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, pretty much forgotten Canadian books this past summer, my favourite being Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich. I laughed out loud.

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