“The Prime Minister did not speak during our brief tribute, certainly not. I don’t think he even looked up. The snarling business of Question Period having just ended, he was shuffling papers. I tried to bring him close to me with my eyes.Who is this man? What makes him tick? No doubt he is busy. No doubt he is deluded by that busyness. No doubt being Prime Minister fills his entire consideration and froths his sense of busied importance to the very brim. And no doubt he sounds and governs like one who cares little for the arts.But he must have moments of stillness. And so this is what I propose to do: not to educate—that would be arrogant, less than that—to make suggestions to his stillness.For as long as Stephen Harper is Prime Minister of Canada, I vow to send him every two weeks, mailed on a Monday, a book that has been known to expand stillness. That book will be inscribed and will be accompanied by a letter I will have written. I will faithfully report on every new book, every inscription, every letter, and any response I might get from the Prime Minister, on this website.”
Yann Martel
The Website where you can read the wonderful letters that accompanied each book is here: http://www.whatisstephenharperreading...
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message 1: by Ben (new)

Ben According to the website above, there were only 101 books sent to Mr. Harper. Therefore, some of the books don't belong. I'll delete any that I can find.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads I think I recall on the website that a couple of the numbered entries were two books, but yeah.


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