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Canada Reads 2007
Help Us Celebrate a Truly Canadian Cultural Event!
Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" which takes place on CBC radio airing the week of February 26 to March 2, 2007. Five prominent advocates defend their choice for the book that they believe all of Canada should read.
This year the Geoffrey R. Weller is holding our own campaign. Five prominent UNBC personalities have chosen a book that they believe all of the UNBC community should read. Each reviewer will prepare an argument hoping to win you over to their chosen book. A copy of each of these books has been place on 1 week Reserve in the Library giving you an opportunity to read them for yourself.
Voting will take place throughout the rest of the semester and the UNBC winner will be announced on April 5th.
The UNBC Reads Book Choices:
CBC Canada Reads Campaign
For more information on the CBC Canada Reads Campaign, click here.
The CBC Canada Reads Book Choices and Reviewers:
This year's Reviewers include. Read their biographies below.
UNBC Reads Book Descriptions:
Howard Brunt
Howard Brunt (a recovering ocean-based boater) has been the Provost and Vice President Academic of the University of Northern British Columbia since the fall of 2004. He is a Professor in Community Health Sciences and Nursing and, prior to coming to UNBC, was the Associate Vice President Research at the University of Victoria. When he is not reading (or writing) relatively dull work-related documents and emails, he enjoys reading from a wide variety of genres including historical, popular, ethnic, and mystery novels; non-fiction literature; magazines such as the New Yorker and Walrus; and newspapers.
Karen Beeler
Dr. Karin Beeler is an Associate professor in English at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her current research interests include telefantasy and the representation of women in television and film. She has published a monograph or book, Tattoos, Desire and Violence: Marks of Resistance in Literature, Film and Television and has just completed a co-edited collection on the popular television series Charmed. Other teaching and research areas include Canadian literature and Comparative literature studies. She offers a web course on contemporary Canadian literature at UNBC. Her most recent project is a book length study of women with visionary powers in television and film. When not engaged in research, teaching and administrative work, she enjoys spending time with her family and her dogs (she is President of the Prince George Kennel Club).Nathan Frost
One Good Story, That One is steeped in native oral tradition, led off by a sly creation tale, introducing the traditional native trickster coyote. Weaving the realities of native history and contemporary life through the story, King recounts a parodic version of the Garden of Eden story, slyly pulling our leg and our funnybone.
A collection that is rich with strong characters, alive with crisp dialogue and shot through with the universal truths we are all searching for, One Good Story, That One is one great read.
The Center: Poems 1970-2000 by Barry McKinnon
Before moving to Prince George in 1969, Barry McKinnon was writing single narrative poems that, in terms of form, began to seem outworn and inadequate: the emotional range of the lyric had become too personal and limiting.
The Centre: Poems 1970-2000 thus begins, appropriately, with "The Death of a Lyric Poet" -- the sequence of poems that initiate his new engagement of, and life in the north. The "centre" in this sequence of ten long poems thus shifts from a nostalgic, idealized and elegiac rural singularity, to a new relentless multiplicity of the urban frontier, where the centre constantly threatens not to hold. The "centre" in these books becomes simultaneously the shopping centre, the community centre, the industrial centre -- a multiplicity of urban attentions -- reproducing itself as an articulate awareness of a fractured and fragmented self. Beauty appears in this wasteland only through glimpses of externalized objects of desire: a new, materialized "arrhytmia" of the heart, grounded in the scarlet fever of an ever receding innocence of youth. (from the book cover)
Wasps At The Speed Of Sound by Derry Murphy
In over a decade of writing short fiction, Derryl Murphy has consistently and poignantly examined the human experience, in relation to other people and to the environment. There are eleven stories in this collection, ten of them gathered together for the first time and one making its debut on these pages, and all of them examine our experience with the world(s) around us, anticipating Dread and Disaster with every turn, even while Hope is sometimes allowed to win out. Come witness: the destruction of the Earth; an alien tourist and the death of a species; Earth at the end of time, coming back from a very long trip; a man and his father, lost in time; sailing on seas of garbage; an insect rebellion; a virtual future that creates an unrealistic past; water, politics, and a big machine; monkeywrenching taken to a new level; lessons in photography; and rebellion on a distant world. Eleven stories that take you into the future even as you wrestle with the present. from the book cover)