I've #JustRead “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” which won #CanadaReads2023.
Kate Beaton’s #GraphicMemoir sketches homesickness, sexism, danger – & occasional beauty – in the hellscape that is the #OilSands.
One lovely vignette occurs when she explains that Maritimers have long had to leave home to work elsewhere (a loss that defines their music & literature), & we see that she is reading “No Great Mischief” by the wonderful Alistair MacLeod.
#Bookstodon #AmReading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/06/ducks-kate-beaton-review-oil-sands/

#CBC's #Canada #Reads 2023 #CanadaReads2023 debates will take place March 27-30, 2023.

They will be hosted by #AliHassan and will be broadcast on #CBCRadioOne, #CBCTV, #CBCGem and on #CBCBooks.
Lots of #GenreFiction this year.

#Ducks, by #KateBeaton is a #GraphicNovel. #Hotline by #DimitriNasrallah is set in the 1980s, and makes use of memory, time periods, and elements of #magicrealism There are 2 #Novels that are #EcoFiction, a #SubGenre of #SpeculativeFiction - #ScienceFiction. They are #Greenwood by #MichaelChristie, and #StationEleven by #EmilyStJohnMandel. #MexicanGothic by #SilviaMorenoGarcia is a #Gothic #Horror novel. #GothicHorror.
#CanadianFiction has come a long way from the White Anglophone #NationalAngst and grim self-introspection #Realism that once haunted our #culturalPsyche.
#Genre #GenreLiterature #CanadianLiterature #CanadianNovels #Novel #Fiction

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2023-contenders-1.6716837