



Book log 2006.
Number of books read: 30
Number of books by Canadian authors: 27
Number of authors: 29**
Number of authors read for the first time: 27**
** Dropped Threads is an anthology. For simplicity's sake, I counted it as being by one author.
(C) Canadian author
- Bear – Marian Engel (public library) (C)
- A Good House – Bonnie Burnard (public library, now in my library) (C)
- Clara Callan – Richard B. Wright (public library) (C)
- Broken Prey – John Sandford (public library)
- Deafening – Frances Itani (Canada Reads 2006 selection) (public library, now in my library) (C)
- Luck – Joan Barfoot (public library) (C)
- How to Be a Canadian – Will Ferguson & Ian Ferguson (public library) (C)
- Dropped Threads: What we aren't told – Various authors, edited by Carol Shields & Marjorie Anderson (public library) (C)
- Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden (Canada Reads 2006 selection) (public library) (C)
- Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets, Selected Poems, 1962-1996 – Al Purdy (Canada Reads 2006 selection) (public library) (C)
- Invisible Armies – Jon Evans (my library, advance reading copy) (C)
- The Lost Garden – Helen Humphreys (public library) (C)
- Mercy Among the Children – David Adams Richards (public library) (C)
- The Joining of Dingo Radish – Rob Harasymchuk (public library) (C)
- The Cure for Death by Lightning – Gail Anderson-Dargatz (my library) (C)
- Mad River Road – Joy Fielding (my library) (C)
- Kilter: 55 Fictions – John Gould (public library) (C)
- The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle (Le coeur est un muscle involontaire) – Monique Proulx (public library) (C)
- Up in Ontario – James Sherrett (public library) (C)
- Lingerie Tea – Sylvia Mulholland (my library) (C)
- The Devil's Cure – Kenneth Oppel (my library) (C)
- The Birth House – Ami McKay (public library) (C)
- A Chill Rain in January – L.R. Wright (my library) (C)
- Alligator – Lisa Moore (my library) (C)
- Bourgeois Blues – Lisa Herman (my library) (C)
- Murder at the Mendel – Gail Bowen (my library) (C)
- Dead Watch – John Sandford (breaking my all-Canadian year yet again for Sandford) (public library)
- One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found – Kathy Harrison (public library)
- Children of My Heart – Gabrielle Roy (Canada Reads 2007 selection) (public library) (C)
- The Internet Bride – Gregory Ward (my library) (C)