Reading 2008

If you’ve been reading this site for the last month, you’ll know that I’ve joined The Canadian Book Challenge, a contest wherein participants are asked to read thirteen books by Canadian authors between October 4th 2007 and the first of July 2008. Author Steve Zipp was kind enough to send me a copy of his recent novel Yellowknife to use as one of my thirteen selections. I tell you this only in the interest of full disclosure, although regular readers will know that I would never let such a thing colour my opinion of a book one way or another. The book itself, the physical artifact, is quite handsome and feels good in the hands. The paper is of exceptional quality, and the matte cover rather refreshing. It’s published by Res Telluris, a house with which I was previously unfamiliar, but as Yellowknife is such a fine specimen, it seems… Continue Reading →