The Book Mine Set: Honourable Mention in Uphere Magazine...

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Honourable Mention in Uphere Magazine...

My poem "The Enlightenment of Sammy Lowe." Check it out!

2 comments:

Barbara Bruederlin said...: Bravo! That's a wonderful poem and a very apt cautionary tale! I shall never guffaw at the northern lights...; Tuesday, 27 August, 2013
Swordsman said...: Great tale!; Wednesday, 28 August, 2013

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
2. Jane Urquhart- Stone Carvers
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 Sum of All Our Parts - Libby Whittall Catling

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read(?) but haven't-- yet (Populist edition)
1. ~~Twilight- Stephenie Meyer~~
2. ~~Fifty Shades of Grey- E.L. James~~
3. ~~Confessions of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella~~
~~4. the Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt~~
5. ~~The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Stiegg Larsson~~
~~6. The Gargoyle- Andrew Davidson~~
7. ~~Outlander- Gil Adamson~~
~~8. Flashforward- Robert J. Sawyer~~
9. ~~Fear the Worst- Linwood Barclay~~
10. ~~No One Here Gets Out Alive- Jerry Hopkins~~
11. A Fatal Grace- Louise Penny
~~12. Room- Emma Donoghue~~
13. Bitten- Kelley Armstrong
~~14. The Book of Awesome- Neil Pasricha~~
~~15. Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell~~
~~16. The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan~~
~~17. Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner~~
~~18. Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen~~
~~19. Book Thief- Markus Zusak~~
~~20. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini~~

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. Thorton 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

Pages

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Honourable Mention in Uphere Magazine...

2 comments: