Reading Wednesday

Just finished: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, edited by Terry Goldie, Daniel David Moses, and Armand Garnet Ruffo. You know a book is good when you have a million little strips of torn tissue marking pieces that you want to share with your class. Honestly, there would have been more if I didn't have concerns that the sheer girth of this book would make individual pages difficult to scan. At any rate, this is a massive showcase of the range and diversity of Indigenous literature up to the 90s.

[REDACTED]. I guess I should mention that I re-read my own novel, which is lengthy, for proofreading purposes. You know? It holds up. You should read it.

Currently reading: In Search Of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier. This is one of those classic books that I've somehow never managed to read. It's the story of two Métis sisters taken from their impoverished, drug-addicted parents and raised in separate foster homes. I'm only a chapter in, but I can see immediately why it's so well-regarded—April's childhood POV is so grounded and real, and I've absorbed enough of what happens by osmosis that it's already breaking my heart.