Canadian literature...

[fajrdrako]

I always enjoy the way Amazon sends me messages advertising books they think I might like, and dammit, half the time they're right. They know my weaknesses. They offered me an Annie Dillard book yesterday, one I didn't already know about. I was thrilled.

So today they sent me a message beginnig, "As someone who has bought Canadian literature or fiction at Amazon.ca, you might like...."

I did? What? When? I never buy Canlit! I'm allergic to Canadian literature, partly because of bad experiences with it in high school, partly because of bad experiences with it in general. (No, I am not a Margaret Atwood fan. How'd you guess?)

Not that there aren't Canadian writers whom I love: Guy Gavriel Kay, Karen Lowachee, Antonine Maillet, Jane Rule.... but I haven't bought any of them from Amazon.

Maybe I bought something by a Canadian I didn't know was Canadian. Or maybe they made it up.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You're a Canadian. You read literature. OBVIOUSLY you read CanLit. :-) :-) :-)

LOL. Of course! Amazon has no way of knowing I am an Internationalist!

I would add Jo Walton and Robert Charles Wilson to a list of good Canadian SF/F authors.

So far I haven't been able to get into Jo Walton, and the only Robert Charles Wilson book I read, I didn't like the story - though the style was good.

I know there are others I've liked. Just can't think of them.