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As I mentioned in my last post, Wayde Compton founded a press and published Fred Booker's Adventures in Debt Collectio n in 2006. Booke...

This review is going to be a bit different.  It is a joint review of two books by Wayde Compton, a Vancouver-based poet/artist/activist.  Wa...

I believe this brings me to Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man.  To me this is Kroetsch's greatest achievement, yet it was only his third ...

I'm not entirely sure why Bissoondath's The Innocence of Age came to the top of my reading list once I decided to start reading Can....

I'll only have a few minutes to write some thoughts on this short story collection and then circle back a bit later (it is due at the li...

So I discovered this site fairly late, i.e. several months into the book challenge, which runs July 1 to July 1: 5th-annual-canadian-book-ch...

So I flew down to Chicago for the holidays -- and to help with the last of the packing.  Right after Xmas, we had the movers come, and we re...