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Cathy Converse

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Cathy Converse is a bestselling author with multiple books featured on the BC Bestseller List. With over forty years of writing experience, she has authored, co-authored, and co-edited seven books, in addition to writing numerous magazine cover stories, academic journal articles, and technical manuals. Her fourth book, Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet, was a finalist for the 2009 BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. Her work Against the Current received an Honourable Mention for the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

A former chair of social sciences, Cathy was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Camosun College and helped establish the women’s studies curriculum a ...more

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Cathy Converse's Blog

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The Courtenay and District Museum presents

Against the Current

an illustrated talk by author
Cathy Converse

Thursday, June 14, 2018
7pm (doors at 6:30)

Rotary Gallery, Courtenay and District Museum,
207 Fourth Street

Admission: $5 per Historical Society member
$6 non-members (plus GST)
Advance tickets strongly recommended

Q&A and signing to follow Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 20, 2018 19:44

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Average rating: 3.77 · 273 ratings · 29 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet 3.74 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against the Current: The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley: 1769-1845 by Beth Hill, Cathy Converse (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frances Barkley: Eighteenth-century Seafarer 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Auntie Vie: A Life of Pickles and Pearls by Cathy Converse (Goodreads Author), Adam Sawatsky (Foreword by) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mainstays: Women Who Shaped Bc 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Auntie Vie: A Life of Pickles and Pearls by Cathy Converse (Goodreads Author), Adam Sawatsky (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cathy Converse rated a book it was amazing Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cathy Converse wants to read The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cathy Converse rated a book liked it Stone's Fall by Iain Pears	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Iain Pears is master of intrigue and writer of thrillers, whose descriptive narration has the reader guessing. The second section of the book did get caught up in financial minutiae which had a tendency to sideline the reader and separate one from th ...more
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Cathy Converse rated a book really liked it The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20) by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have enjoyed the fact that Penny is allowing her leading protagonist to grow and expand. While I love the small Quebec village of Three Pines, it is important for a writer not to be stuck telling the same story over and over. Some reviewers thought ...more
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Cathy Converse rated a book it was amazing The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fig tree, a Turkish Cypriot girl, and a Greek Cypriot boy— Shafak tells a tale of forbidden but enduring love, war, emigration, and cultural dissonance. The Island of the Missing Trees is poignant, timeless, and masterful in its simplicity.
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Cathy Converse wants to read Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cathy Converse rated a book really liked it The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) by Pat Barker	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cathy Converse rated a book really liked it Pachinko by Min Jin Lee	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An epic rags to riches generational story of a Korean family living in Japan and the struggle of belonging amidst ethnic typecasting where they would always be considered Gaijin, even if born in Japan
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Cathy Converse rated a book really liked it Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cathy Converse rated a book really liked it Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I’m not sure what to say about this book. It is interesting, important, well researched, a must read, terrifying, and more information that I can absorb.
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