The Book Mine Set: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Nicola, winner of last week's scavenger hunt. Kenneth J. Harvey's Inside will be in the mail shortly. Thanks to everyone who participated.

Also many thanks to Kenneth J. Harvey for supporting the Canadian Book Challenge.

Glaring Omissions

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (International edition)

1. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
2. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
3. Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
4. Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
5. Ayn Rand- Atlas Shrugged
6. Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
7. Albert Camus - The Stranger
8. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
9. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
10. Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy
11. Unknown - Beowolf
12. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
13. Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Ring
14. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
15. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
16. D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
17. James Joyce - Ulysses
18. Frank Herbert - Dune
19. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
20. Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Canadian edition)

1. Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance
3. ~~Margaret Laurence- Stone Angel~~
~~4. Donna Morrissey- Kit's Law~~
~~5. Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan~~
6. Hugh McClennan- The Watch That Ends The Night
7. William Gibson- Neuromancer
~~8. W.P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe~~
9. ~~Ethel Wilson- Swamp Angel~~
10. ~~Wayson Choy- Jade Peony~~
11. Brian Moore- The Luck of Ginger Coffey
12. Marie-Claire Blais- A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
~~13. Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant~~
~~14. Sheila Watson- The Double Hook~~
~~15. Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town~~
~~16. Joseph Boyden- Through Black Spruce~~
~~17. Kenneth Oppel- Silver Wing~~
~~18. Thompson Highway- The Rez Sisters~~
~~19. Susannah Moodie- Roughing it in the Bush~~
~~20. David Adams Richards- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Northern edition)

1. ~~Tuktoyaktok 2-3 - Herbert T. Schwarz~~
~~2. Voice in the Wild - Laurie Sarkadi~~
3. The Third Suspect - David Staples
~~4. Good Time Girls - Lael Morgan~~
~~5. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares - Alootook Ipellie~~
~~6. All The Way - Jordan Tootoo~~
7. This Quest for that Final Horizon - Derrick LaSaga
8. Coppermine - Keith Ross Leckie
9. Uvajuq - David F. Pelly
10. Yukon Madness - L. Ron Hubbard
11. Ukkusiksalik - David F. Pelly
12. Tales of an Old Town Versifier - Anthony Foliot
~~13. Klengenberg of the Arctic - Christian Klengenberg~~
14. Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade - Jock McMeekan
15. Graves of Ice - John Wilson
16. The Gnawer of Rocks - Louise Flaherty
~~17. You Will Wear a White Shirt - Nick G. Sibbeston~~
18. Out of His League - Ryan Strain
19. Silver Mine - Vivian Arend
~~20. The Mundane and the Holy - Libby Whittall Catling~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Plays edition):
~~1. Ann-Marie MacDonald- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)~~
2. ~~Joseph Kesselring- Arsenic and Old Lace~~
3. ~~Thornton Wilder- Our Town~~
~~4. Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest~~
~~5. Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire~~
~~6. Eugene O'Neill- The Iceman Cometh~~
~~7. Edward Albee- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?~~
~~8. David Mamet- Glengarry Glen Ross~~
~~9. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead~~
~~10. Neil Simon- Lost in Yonkers~~
~~11. Agatha Christie- The Mousetrap~~
12. ~~Moliere- Tartuffe~~
13. ~~George Ryga- The Ecstasy of Rita Joe~~
14. Daniel David Moses- Coyote City
15. ~~Sally Clark- Moo~~
16. ~~Anton Chekov- The Cherry Orchard~~
17. ~~Euripides- Medea~~
18. ~~Tony Kushner- Angels in America~~
19. ~~Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun~~
20. Bertolt Brecht- Galileo

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Sunday, December 09, 2007

And the winner is...

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