Through Black Spruce

I'm reading this right now and am loving it!  For those who don't know, it is narrated by two Cree Indian people - a man and his niece.  There's a little bit of a mystery because Will, one of the narrators, is in a coma and seems to be narrating from his coma all the things that lead him there. The niece goes on a bit of a journey from the Arctic Lowlands of Ontario, to Toronto, Montreal and New York.  You really get the feel of what it's like to be First Nations in this day and age.  Wonderful atmosphere - very well written!   It deserves all the accolades it's been getting.

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Charlie's Oranges

Very funny!

Charlie's Oranges

Sydney Morning Herald's essay about Saint Claws is quiet controversive.  He would respawn to Chester's believe system in a way that would show his disappreciation of Charlie's gullibity.  The childness of Chester does not make Mr. Herald gleed.  He would find that Chester's believe had sedimental value, but would desgree with his sustainment of bleving in Stana Claus.  The youngling enjoyed the orange that he found in his present case, as it was from his favourite father, but Sydney's overlooked integrity would really laterly probally kill Chester's hopeness.  The actualness of Santana is not ture and Herald would, in the end, not show understandment for Chester's pigment.

- An amalgamation of the many Chester essays at the marking session.

The Time Traveller's Wife

This was not my recommendation, but it was one of my best summer reads ever.  When I first heard of it, I thought it sounded like a dumb, science-fiction romance, but it is far from it.  A woman has a life-long relationship with her future-present husband.  He time-travels unwillingly, and without warning, so that she meets him for the first time when she is six years old.  He travels back to her at different ages.  For example, he might be 30 when he meets her at 8.  He meets her for the first time, in real time, when he's 28 (I think), so even though she's known him most of her life, for him it's the first time.  Very interesting concepts on time are developed.  Also, the personalities of the two protagonists are wonderfully rendered.  The text is told from both characters' points of view.

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