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Reading Wednesday

Finished reading: Forge by Jan Zwicky. Already mentioned in a previous entry that I liked it, so I'll just say - this poetry collection is great from beginning to end; if you have a chance to read it, please do so. There's something about her work that feels very fresh and musical; I can see myself returning to re-read this one frequently.

Currently reading: Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology, edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero. This is, basically, a short story collection of fanfiction for the film Night of the Living Dead. Well, okay, not all of it is fanfiction - considering George Romero has a story in it, as well as John Russo. ;) But, anyway. If you like short stories, and you like zombie fiction, and you like Night of the Living Dead in particular, then you'll enjoy this - though you don't need to have seen the film in order to appreciate it.

Also Currently Reading: What the Bear Said: Skald Tales of New Iceland by W. D. Valgardson. More short stories. Some of them are folk tales that came over from Iceland mostly-unaltered; others are Icelandic-Canadian stories firmly grounded in the Canadian setting. Storms over Lake Winnipeg, instead of whales there are enormous sturgeons, talking bears.... One story in particular that I loved involved elves in Canada.

( Short retelling of it under here, because I liked it so much )

Now, there's one tiny detail that made me laugh - there's a scene where everyone is trying to find a "normal" explanation for who the elves were, based on what the clothing looks like; the answer they came up with was "Oh, the embroidery is so beautiful; they must have been Galicians" - okay, yes, thank you; if Galicians = elves, then I'm going to pretend that my ancestors were elves now. \:D/ Clearly my grandmother was an elf-lady, haha. <3 Anyway....

Reading next: Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder. Title pretty much says it all; I have no idea if this book is any good, but we shall see. The selection of stuff in the local library that deals with specifically-Canadian LGBT2QA stuff is... small.

Also reading next: A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale. This one is a M/M novel set in Saskatchewan near the end of the Edwardian era. Hopefully the ending won't be tragic (but I'll steel myself for it anyway). It wasn't written by a Canadian; Gale is British. I find that interesting - it isn't often that I find stuff in Canadian settings that isn't by a Canadian author. Well, we'll see how this one goes.