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Books and authors from/about SK

Cool Water by Dianne Warren

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

I have cool water on my bedside table tbr! It was recommended by cbc personality gill deacon.

Although Life of Pi is not my favourite, I am seeing yann Martell next month and it is sure to be interesting discussion. Has anyone read the high mountains of Portugal? It is on my pile also!!

I absolutely loved Cool Water; it's a quiet novel. I'm hoping to get to her new novel Liberty Street some time soon.

I loved Life of Pi but I did not like Yann's other novel Beatrice and Virgil that much. I do want to read his new novel; I have it on hold at the library but I'm 5th in line. I have heard him talk in person and he is extremely interesting so I am sure you will love it.

One of my favourite novels is set in Sask. A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay.

Susan wrote:
Although Life of Pi is not my favourite, I am seeing yann Martell next month and it is sure to be int..."

Thank you! Life of Pi wasn't a favourite of mine either....

Yann Martel is coming to Grimsby April 1, so I am trying to finish The High Mountains of Portugal first.

@Megan - I have not read that one by Elizabeth Hay but enjoyed meeting her when she was promoting His Whole Life http://ayearofbooksblog.com/2015/09/1...

Cross-posting this one - he was an awesome speaker to a sold out crowd! http://ayearofbooksblog.com/2016/04/0...

Reading 101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper and enjoying the articulate, humorous and sometimes veiled commentary in his letters. It is adding to my TBR pile and I can't help but hope that despite not replying to the letters, Harper has enjoyed some of the novels sent his way.

Susan wrote: "Reading 101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper and enjoying the articulate, humorous and sometimes veiled commentary in his letters. It is adding to..."

Yann Martel is brilliant and it's a shame he was so blatanly ignored by Harper. I had planned on reading every book on the list starting with the first one but I didn't make it very far :-(. I'm surprised there is no book group on Good Reads to read all the books.

I had forgotten about Letters to Stephen Harper!! I had followed the blog for a bit a few years ago. I'd be interested in reading the complete set. :)

It is interesting to read what he has suggested. Many of the books are on the shorter side - I guess he figured Harper would be too busy.... I will have to look and see if I can find the blog too.

I think ever since the publication of the book, the blog was taken down because all the letters were on it. There was no need to buy the book. I had it bookmarked but when I try to access it now it says "unavailable".

This makes sense - i am about halfway through the book and enjoying it so far.

❀ Susan wrote: "It is interesting to read what he has suggested. Many of the books are on the shorter side - I guess he figured Harper would be too busy.... I will have to look and see if I can find the blog too."

You are right Susan, I remember reading on the blog they were under 250 or 200 pages or something so there was no excuse for him not to have time to read them :)

I tweeted Justin to see what he likes to read and whether he found the books in the basement but alas, did not hear back. i think I will try again

A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage

❀ Susan wrote: "I tweeted Justin to see what he likes to read and whether he found the books in the basement but alas, did not hear back. i think I will try again"

Justin Trudeau is a massive reader, so I suspect Yann Martel doesn't feel the need to carry on the job he did with Harper! I read Trudeau's Common Ground and he mentions a number of times his love of reading.

LOL - someone asked him at the event whether he would send books to Justin and he said he did not feel he had to since he reads. I am curious if the books are still in boxes somewhere...

Clearly I am not very well-read with Saskatchewan authors. I have only read The High Mountains of Portugal from this article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskato...

There was some really good looking poetry collections on that list that I'm excited to check out.

A couple of suggestions have been included elsewhere but there are a number of new book ideas from Saskatchewan. Here is a link to an interesting list of suggestions from an excellent Canadian source for Canadian Reads - The 49th Shelf:

https://49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/2...

May I add Song of Batoche if you're looking for a novel set in Sask.

Some terrific Saskatchewan suggestions (in addition to Diane Warren and Yann Martel).

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Harold Johnson including Corvus

Kristine Scarrow is from Saskatoon and writes YA books. I won one in a giveaway and thought it was pretty good. Plus I think she could use some more ratings/exposure compared to some of the big names from Sask.

I am very interested in the discussion on Cool Water so I've added it to my to-read list. Oh how I miss living in Saskatchewan. Such a beautiful province.

The more books added or suggested about Saskatchewan I would love. I wish I could live there permanently.