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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Club Read 2009 : SqueakyChu's 2009 Reading | | 24 | SqueakyChu, May 12 |  |
| Reading Globally : Recommend a book from your country of origin/residence | | 82 | CarlosMcRey, February 12 | |
| Book talk : 2008 Year in Review | | 3 | ajsomerset, January 1 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Seitherin's 2008 Read List | | 77 | seitherin, December 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Ebba's 888 | | 5 | karenmarie, December 2008 | |
| Reading Globally : Contemporary Canadian Literature | | 23 | rebeccanyc, October 2008 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : THE KITCHEN | | 234 | cal8769, September 2008 | |
| Book talk : A STUPID GAME TO PLAY. . . THE OLD ONE IS TOO LONG | | 305 | hemlokgang, August 2008 | |
| Canadian Bookworms : What are you reading in July/08? | | 30 | LynnB, August 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 | | 431 | clamairy, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads February 2008 | | 48 | laruebk, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, Part IV | | 161 | littlebookworm, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Canadian Bookworms : Canada Reads 2008 | | 18 | LynnB, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: Canadian Bookworms : Feb/08: You know the question..... | | 14 | LynnB, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 January 2008 | | 200 | fersher, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JANUARY 2008 | | 222 | Cariola, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 | | 209 | Cariola, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Winter Wonderland | | 14 | joehutcheon, January 2008 | |
... Huston. Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson vividly depicts life amidst a native community in British Columbia, while Icefields by Thomas Wharton is a beautiful historical rendering of life near the glaciers of the Jasper region. There's also an experimetal novella by Sheila Watson ... ... by Lionel Shriver
The Interloper by Antoine Wilson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon ... Michael Ondaatje and Jane Urquhart. I would add some lesser known gems: The Double Hook by Sheila Watson or Icefields by Thomas Wharton. For French Canada, consider Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard or poetry by Nathalie Stephens. ... there! My colleague Dave loved it -- having spent time in a boarding school run by Jesuit Brothers.
I was cheering for Icefields and Not Wanted on the Voyage, but it is nice to see a humourous book win Canada Reads for a change. Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
(Ranked) Were you surprised? I was! I would have picked Icefields, but wouldn't have been surprised if From the Fifteenth District or Not Wanted on the Voyage had won. King Leary's victory was not what I expected at all. ... Chamber, but it sounds interesting, another one to add to the wish list, thanks for mentioning it! :-)
I'm now reading Icefields by Thomas Wharton and enjoying it more with every page turned.
Next up will be The Crystal Cave for our theme read. ... myself a day of no reading when I finished just to let myself bask in the book. I love books like that.
Now I'm reading Icefields which is interesting, I'm liking the imagery, I do wish he'd used plain and simple quotation marks though, I find the dashes distracting. ... and The Green Man from my trusty used book store, then trundled down to the little local new book store and picked up Icefields which sounds very good. The sun is shining, it's warm outside, life is good. Done. Let the debates begin. I think it was a pretty good batch this year. If I had to pick one, I think I'd pick Icefields. Icefields was amazing. I've decided to read Not Wanted on the Voyage for the fourth time next. I've just started Icefields. I'll be in Nova Scotia on business for the first two days of the debates....hope I can catch them on my computer. King Leary was an interesting read, but not my favourite. Two more to go: Icefields and Not Wanted on the Voyage. I finished Icefields by Thomas Wharton and I've started Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton. Really enjoyed the former but not terribly impressed by the latter. Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Total books read: 7 I'm still reading Icefields by Thomas Wharton, but I did take a short break to read through Knit Socks Whatever the Yarn! by Edie Eckman. #157 avaland: I have no idea why I ordered Icefields instead of The Logogryph by Thomas Wharton. It was the latter book I went looking for because of a mention here on LT regarding it. But, at about half done, I'm really enjoying Icefields. I've added The Logogryph to my wish list and I ... >150, Funny you should mention it, I recently picked up a copy of Icefields by Thomas Wharton - it's the only one of his I didn't have. The Logogryph was one of my favorite books of last year. I finished Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher and I've begun Icefields by Thomas Wharton. Sexsmith examined the carcass, stripped to pink muscle.
Icefields by Thomas Wharton I just picked up Icefields by Thomas Wharton. Wharton is a very creative writer. I believe he appeared on the literary scene with Icefields and later with an odd, intriguing book called Salamander. I suspect, he is a big Borges fan. His third book, The Logogryph is a collection of very clever short pieces that any reader would delight in ... ... Finn by Mark Twain (December 2008)
II Canadian Authors
1. King Leary by Paul Quarrington (Jan 2008)
2. Icefields by Thomas Wharton (May 2008)
3. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (August 2008)
4. The Garneau Block by Todd Babiak (November 2008)
5. From the Fifteent ... Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Cold Terror by Stewart Bell
Cold Dark Matter by Alex Brett
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Coming Out of the Ice by Victor Herman ... defended by hip hop poet Jemeni
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant defended by author Lisa Moore
Icefields by Thomas Wharton defended by astronaut Steve MacLean
King Leary by Paul Quarrington defended by singer, songwriter and author Dave Bidini
Not ... ... Here's a part of the blurb from the Centre for Language and Literature's website:
Thomas Wharton's first novel, Icefields (1995), won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award, the Banff Book Festival Grand Prize and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book, Canada ...
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