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Canada Reads: Flannery is immersed in the big read, Fall on Your Knees

"I've got a lot on my mind today. My overstuffed brain has everything to do with the fact that I am in the thick of Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees."

The Book Club: Julie says, have your say

"By now, some of you have finished all five of the 2010 Canada Reads titles. So let's start talking, shall we? Join our five intrepid moderators to discuss the books. Get involved here."



Features

  • Feline Fatale
    Oscar the cat has an uncanny knack for predicting deaths. A doctor's new book explores Oscar's strange gift.
  • Pleasures of the flesh
    Ideas explores the long tradition of eroticism in French literature.
  • The last rebel
    J.D. Salinger did the unthinkable - he refused to play the fame game.
  • The price of everything...
    A conversation with Raj Patel about his new book The Value of Nothing.
  • Satchmo's story
    Louis Armstrong comes to live in the acclaimed new biography, Pops.
  • Improbable printings
    In memory of Miep Gies, a rundown of other great books that almost didn't make it.
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Our Top Picks

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Nicolas Dickner's pick:
Pattern Recognition
By William Gibson
"This is a powerful example of what an SF writer can achieve when looking at our present world, depicting it in a fascinating and unbalancing way. Overwhelmingly intelligent, and sharply written."
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler Flannery Dean's pick:
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë
"I have read this book a thousand times and I will read it another thousand times. Wuthering Heights is ruthless and idealistic. It is perpetually misunderstood. I want to write a book about this book."
Where you Came From by Sara O'Leary Marina Endicott's pick:
Where You Came From
By Sara O'Leary
"It talks wild and free about the origin of self to the smallest of children, and the one reading out loud will love it too. With beguiling illustrations by Julie Morstad."

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