Two debates remain until CBC’s Canada Reads winner is crowned, and the “turf wars” are down to the Atlantic provinces, Quebec, and B.C. and the Yukon.
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- Published in 1945, <i>Two Solitudes</i> has become a classic novel about Canadian identity. In the opening of his book, MacLennan writes, Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence, the two streams embrace the pan of Montreal Island, the Ottawa merges and loses itself, and the main-stream moves northeastward a thousand miles to sea.
- <i>Two Solitudes</i>, Hugh MacLennan (Random House Canada)
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- In her <i>Q&Q</i> review, Emily Donaldson writes, <i>February</i> is not plot-driven: the back-and-forth chronology is meant to flesh out emotional landscapes and fill in historical details. Although Moore writes with an almost brash economy, she cannot prevent <i>February</i> from coming off as an overly sentimental love story.<br /> <br /> <a href=" http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6556 "> Read the rest of the review</a><br />
- <i>February</i>, Lisa Moore (House of Anansi Press)
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- The scenes inside the school are often harrowing, but Wagamese's even tone, propulsive storytelling, and sharp eye for reportorial details render the regimen of beatings, rapes, and ritualized humiliations both believable and shocking, writes James Grainger in his <i>Q&Q</i> review. <br /> <br /> <a href=" http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7535"> Read the rest of the review</a> <br />
- <i>Indian Horse</i>, Richard Wagamese (Douglas & McIntyre)
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