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    A Year in (Canadian) Reading: Claire Cameron

    by Claire Cameron Dec 09, 2017 4 minutes

    I was on book tour for much of the year. And when I tour, I read. I’m not sure how many books I got through exactly, but I read about quantum gravity, a few different translations of Beowulf, microbiology, and cave art. I read Elon Musk’s biography, meaning I can now more accurately predict the size and shape the coming apocalypse. I read many, many novels.

    In looking at my read pile, I decided I needed a focus and narrowed in on Canadian books. But I immediately ran into a problem. What makes a book Canadian?

    published in 1972, a thematic guide to Canadian literature that searched for ways to, where the local authors were tucked away.

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