Member: davidnewland

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About me I'm a blogger, photographer, songwriter and performer. I work as the Assistant Managing Editor at Canoe.ca, a major Canadian web portal. I'm very involved in the roots and folk music scene in Ontario, and spend my leisure time traveling, gardening, canoing, and fixing up my home, which has been in my family for 5 generations. Now that my living room has been mostly renovated, I can actually relax and read without the anxiety of looking at my bare stud walls, beckoning me to more work...

About my library I have had a lifelong passion for books, which I now share with my 11-year-old daughter. As a youth I was a literary omnivore, and would read anything from cereal boxes to James Bond books to Readers' Digest to all the usual classics.

Today, I mostly read relatively accessible non-fiction about religion, philosophy, science, history, etc. I have a weak spot for graphic novels, (perhaps because comics were frowned upon in my childhood home!) my favourite being Tezuka's "Buddha" series.

I do love classic fiction, from Cervantes to Hemingway, and have an abiding fondness for Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut. But for some reason I'm very, very sparing about approaching new fiction - I think I find it overwhelming to encounter new realms, and I'm sensitive to authors' tendencies to share their baggage with the world at large via their books.

The great exception here is anything my daughter reads - if she likes it (Narnia, Harry Potter, Golden Compass) then I'll read it, and probably like it too. As a parting thought - my favourite radio program is Elinor Wachtel's "Writers In Company" on CBC here in Canada. I love to listen to authors talk with her, but rarely go on to read their books. I have no idea why...

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Member sinceNov 16, 2007