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Comment on Canada Reads 2013 Review #1 – Indian Horse by Canada Reads 2013 virtual book club | bookgaga

Canada Reads 2013 virtual book club | bookgaga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:40:44 +0000

[...] Charlotte Ashley reviews Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese in Inklings blog [...]

Comment on That Little Something Extra by tmso

tmso — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:22:37 +0000

That’s a very sweet notion! I suppose maybe a witty and/or personalized quote?

Comment on Parable of the Decrepit Book by Alan Knockwood

Alan Knockwood — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:09:22 +0000

I have a “good” copy of the same book. it is worth more to me than it’s weight in gold. we do have people who still can read the original text. ROM should contact me if they want to copy mine to fill in the blanks of their copy.

Comment on Canada Reads 2013 Review #1 – Indian Horse by Canada Reads 2013 Review #2 – The Age of Hope « Inklings

Canada Reads 2013 Review #2 – The Age of Hope « Inklings — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:34:33 +0000

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Comment on Canada Reads 2013 Review #1 – Indian Horse by Ruth Seeley

Ruth Seeley — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:39:33 +0000

I've just finished sobbing through the last 50 pages of Indian Horse - haven't reacted this strongly to a book since 2nd year university when I finished Tess of the d'Urbervilles in second year at 3AM and couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. The telescoping of Saul's lost alcoholic years didn't bother me, nor did the 'saved by the book' trope. As for the 'history through books' debate - I can tell you I've watched a documentary on the Rwandan genocide, read Romeo D'allaire's Shake Hands with the Devil, seen another film on the subject, and the best explanation for what happened and why was provided by a 26-page short story from the collection Say You're One of Them (in fact, it may be the title story). I've always claimed fiction is about emotional truth. Facts are easy to find and easy to stack in piles. It's what you do with the facts that matters. Whether a young girl ever committed suicide at a residential school by stabbing herself with a knife after her sister was killed by the institution's brutality really doesn't matter. What matters is the depth of pain and hopelessness that is conveyed by the 'action.'

Comment on Canada Reads 2013 Review #1 – Indian Horse by Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:10:07 +0000

Yes, history in novels is touch and go, but that’s what I use Wikipedia for – a little corroboration. But without the novel, I’d never have known what to look up!

Comment on Canada Reads 2013 Review #1 – Indian Horse by Samantha Cohen (@SamKCohennovels)

Samantha Cohen (@SamKCohennovels) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:04:00 +0000

Getting your history from novels can be tricky. History books are for facts; novels can fudge the facts for the sake of a good story. Indian Horse sounds like a winner. Hope to see a lot more books by indigenous writers.

Comment on Rediscovering George Sand by Alyona

Alyona — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:51:41 +0000

I love Sand’s books and always wanted to know more about her, thanks. A also found another biography, it contained more information about her personal life – http://www.fampeople.com/cat-george-sand

Comment on Themed Reading Projects, and Publicity by buriedinprint

buriedinprint — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:47:14 +0000

Does it count as Themed Reading in your books if it’s all the same author? If so, that’s the first time I consciously recall surrounding myself with a bunch of books and diving into the collection: the novels of Barbara Pym, which I read in such quick succession that I now refer to that period of time as my Pym-Blur (I still can’t recall for certain which I’ve read and which I haven’t). There are a bunch of singletons in my stack right now, to be sure, but I really do love reading on a theme, that sense of assembling something larger than a reader’s impressions of a single book.

Comment on Wattpad and the New Reader by mikevonwattpad

mikevonwattpad — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:36:54 +0000

Thanks for your review of Wattpad – it’s always great to get feedback and see how our message is being received.

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One way to look at it is that, like YouTube, we provide the place for writers to offer their creations and readers to connect with content that speaks to them. Some works will carry broader appeal than others, and a great many will be meaningful to just a handful of people. We don’t see that as failure, but rather the nature of new content discovery systems as we’ve seen in music and video. Print stories are just late to the party.

There’s a lot more we need to do to aid in this discovery as well as to broaden the type of content being added to the site. Feedback like yours helps us see this through new eyes! Please feel free to email me if you have any more. I’m mike@wattpad.com

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