Personal Readings

Here are some of my recent (and not so recent) favorites:

• Indian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power – Jody Wilson-Raybould’s political memoir of leadership and integrity
• The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline takes us on a journey into a future with echoes of our past
• Trickster Trilogy – Eden Robinson’s novels provoke and enchant
• Medicine Walk – Richard Wagamese’s beautiful story of family, of struggle, of forgiveness, and of love
• The Truth About Stories: Thomas King’s 2003 Massey Lectures – essays/stories that can be reread again and again, and then listened to again and again. each time a new learning can be found
• The Back of the Turtle – Thomas King’s work rolled like waves into my consciousness
• Under a Thousand Suns – Khaled Hosseini’s poignant, and at times disturbing, stories of two women living through the struggles of Afghanistan in recent decades
• Pattern Recognition – from William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, this novel is one of my favorites (and I also fell in love with the protagonist)
• Life of Pi – when you reach the end of , which story this story by Yann Martel,  which would you choose?
• Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah – Richard Bach takes the reader on a simple and profound journey
• A Race against Time – Stephen Lewis  writes a series of powerful essays. the first begins with ” I have spent the last four years watching people die”
• Eleven Minutes – Paul Coelho’s words are magic.
• Indigenous Storywork: Educating Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit – Jo-anne Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiim does just as the title promises
• Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice’s novel resonates loudly in the world we live in today

And a few favoured authors:

• Daphne Marlatt
• Richard Wagamese
• William Gibson
• Manda Scott
• JRR Tolkien
• Ursula le Guin
• Drew Hayden Taylor
• Thomas King
• Eden Robinson
• Sherman Alexcee
• Minette Walters
• P.D. James
• Paul Coelho
• Stuart MacBride (for dark, gritty Scottish crime fiction)