Some of my Favourite Books 

Archives and Research Collections' current display is on the Library staff's most memorable books, but with the caveat that they have to be in Research Collections. I contributed to this display and I encourage all staff reading this to visit the display in real life, instead of just virtually, if that is not a sacrilege to write! 

I belong to a Book Club and through it I have read several books which I would never have thought of reading on my own. An example of this if Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, a classic novel of Nova Scotia's south shore, confined to the dustbin of history decades ago, rescued by CBC's Canada Reads, and then onto the reading lists of many book clubs. A classic that has always remained a classic is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which I am reading this month as an counter-balance to taking this course!

A pair of books I would recommend for those grapling with death and dying are: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking which rightly so got all the attention and Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love. Didion is a famous writer, Radziwill married into one of the most famous families in America, the Kennedys. Both women write of the death of their husbands; both books were published in 2005. I found both stories to be griping and the prose excellent in both.

I have read that Ian McEwan's Atonement has been made into a movie, with Keira Knightly, in the role of Cecily. Briony will be played by 3 actresses -- child, young woman, old woman. The old woman is played by Vanessa Redgrave. The fact that an old woman has been cast means the movie will not be just straight narrative, but will end with one of more of the twists that the novel does. How will people react? It is, after all, just a novel or a movie? Or is it?

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