I am guilty of blog negligence. In my defense, lots has happened in my life in recent weeks both personally and professionally. I know it’s no excuse for ignoring my legion of fans who were anxiously awaiting the next installment of my writing genius (I’m joking about the genius and fans part by the way). [...]
Alright so I finally gave myself a kick in the you know what and I started to read Pélagie (version française). Can you say “challenge”? Holy crap. I am a francophone from New Brunswick and I can barely understand what the woman wrote! The thing is that I am not Acadian. Newsflash! Not all francophones [...]
Since you’ve taken a minute to browse my site/blog, I thought I would also take the time to point out some of the features of my little corner of the web world. First of all and most importantly, you will find information about the Canadian authors and books I will be reading in the next [...]
John Keats once said: Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. Thanks for the thought John, now that is exactly how I plan to spend my Thursday evening this week. Why? Because this is the date I have chosen to [...]
Today I came across an interesting article by Darryl Whitter “Canada’s an urban nation. Why is our literature still down on the farm?” thanks to my friend Joe Boughner (also the creative mind and tech savvy guy that has made this site and blog possible). I thought to myself “holy cow this is probably why [...]
Tick tock tick tock. That’s the constant sound I hear inside my head. Time is passing me by and it doesn’t seem like there is anything I can do to slow it down. It really pisses me off because I have about a million things to do and thanks to this new gorgeous watch I [...]
This morning I woke up to day #2 of my week on vacation! This by no means will be a week of sipping wine and lounging on the patio. For one because the sun is always a no-show on my vacation and in fact, I have tons of work to do on this blog. My [...]
Which book will I read first? I don’t know yet. At this time, I am entering data about the authors and about the books. I feel that at some point along the way in the preparatory phase, I will just feel like reading one book more than the others and that will be that. There’s [...]
Welcome to wordsandgrapes.com, home to my ambitious plan to read my way through 24 of the best of classic Canadian literature in 12 months. I have a created a system where each book has been carefully selected depending on the author’s native province or territory so I can read classic CanLit from East to West [...]
