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

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

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