DNF @ 35%
As a Canadian, I love Canadiana, but this book was bogged down in strange minutiae, like the protag marvelling over Tim Hortons coffee, our « Monopoly money », and gun legislation. It just didn‘t serve to deepen anything.
Wildwood was grant-funded and the grant panels often award project with strong Canadian identities, which is why I suspect the text was so aggressively cheering for Canada. It just didn‘t work for me.
The pollen is making it too miserable to be outside here so I‘ll just read about a woman and her daughter who go to live in her great aunt‘s home, electricity and plumbing free, on the edge of the wilderness for a year as a condition of her inheritance. (Partial photobomb by Jazz who wanted to rub his head against the phone as I took the picture.)
pickThis was really good! A modern day pioneer like Susanna Moodie (she even references Moodie in the book). Look for it in February. Thanks to Dundurn for sending.
I‘m liking this so far! Funny little descriptions of an American settling into western Canada and discovering Canadian Tire, loonies and toonies. 😁😁
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