http://harperperennial.ca Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:53:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a girl who's constantly looking for reading challenges, joining them, creating them, and then failing miserably (see My Tragic Right Hip for proof), I'm glad that one's come along that I'll actually be able to tackle. Enter English 101 from The Olive Reader, HarperPerennial's blog. This month they're reading ... http://harperperennial.ca/2010/english-101-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/ The excellent P.S. Section from the Olive Edition of Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation contains a fascinating article the author originally wrote for Vanity Fair. While written in 2004, the main themes remain utterly relevant, especially in light of the continued threat of factory farming, not only to our ... http://harperperennial.ca/2010/order-the-fish/ When we launched our Perennial site here in Canada, we did so with a splash: a contest where a book club could win books for a year. Well, the winners of that club -- The Sylvan Lake Library Book Club -- have read their first book. They were kind enough ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/the-sylvan-lake-library-book-club-reads-the-letter-opener/ The first Marilynne Robinson novel that I read was Gilead, and what a reading experience it was......exhilarating would be a good descriptive word. That novel sent me reeling forward headlong into Home, now out in its Perennial edition, which follows many of the same characters from Gilead. Glory has come ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/1536/ Like any fiction writer, I want to examine the human condition, and I usually stay with my own time and place, or with the recent past. I do this because I love the gathering power of memory, because I am drawn to the things that come back to me, with ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/the-changing-world-of-bonnie-burnard/ They are invariably called by their first names. “You need to talk to Phil,” a secretary at the Society of Train Engine Historians may tell me, or “Margaret will know,” an administrator will say when I contact the American Museum of Hearing Aids. I’m given contact information and, sometimes, a ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/among-the-fanatics-by-ron-rash/ Read all of Lionel Shriver's gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry online now.Eva never really wanted to be a mother -- and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-read-the-whole-book-online/ Barbara Gowdy’s wholly unique style permeates her short story collection, We So Seldom Look on Love. In “Ninety-three Million Miles Away,” housewife Ali relentlessly pursues an ever-elusive sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment. Ali’s appetite for acquisition -- for knowledge and talent, for fine clothes, and for the objective admiration ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/ninety-three-million-miles-away-by-barbara-gowdy-2/ Diane Schoemperlen's Forms of Devotion plays with words and images, creating an interesting and innovative book that merges design with content. In "Five Small Rooms," take an intriguing, spectral journey into the narrator's imagination and be left wondering, “Is it madness or a murder mystery?” Five Small Rooms (A Murder Mystery) ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/five-small-rooms-a-murder-mystery-indeed/ Translator Edith Grossman's job was made doubly hard by the years of scholarship built up around Cervantes's classic work.This article entitled “In other words...that’s what she does” by Lewis Beale  appeared in the November 30, 2003 edition of the Los Angeles Times: Sure, translating Don Quixote was a daunting task. But ... http://harperperennial.ca/2009/%e2%80%9cin-other-wordsthat%e2%80%99s-what-she-does%e2%80%9d-lewis-beale-on-edith-grossman/