Challenge Your BC Bookshelf
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: read five books on BC history by the end of the summer. Often, libraries, bookstores, and organizations across Canada host summer reading challenges — they know many of us are on vacation or taking advantage of the warmer weather to relax outside — and now British Columbia History magazine has tailored a challenge for readers of BC history.
Does reading five history books before the end of the summer sound daunting? After all, time flies from July 1st to Labour Day weekend. But the BC Bookshelf Reading Challenge ends on September 30th (justified by the summer weather many of us experience in the weeks after Labour Day, including on BC’s south coast, where I live).
My reading challenge: 1. Jean Teillet’s The North-West is Our Mother
2. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories
3. Robert S. Macham’s Chemainus & Its Logging Railways, 4. Henry & Self: An English Gentlewoman at the Edge of Empire by Kathryn Bridge
5. On the Cusp of Contact: Gender Space and Race in the colonization of British Columbia, essays by Jean Barman; and bonus: Julia by Michael Kluckner.
Did you do a lot of reading in the spring while in self-isolation and want to spend more time outside this summer? Participate by reading book reviews that meet the challenge criteria! Grab a copy of BC BookWorld, check out the Ormbsy Review online or read book reviews in current or past issues of British Columbia History magazine.
What books are on your summer reading challenge? Manage to bend the challenge for a book you’ve been wanting to read? Let us know on social media.
Aimee
