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

[lunacy-gal.livejournal.com]

CanLit never fails to depress me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That's one of its problems.

Another is that it tends to make mountains out of molehills, and/or to be about rather shallow, boring people.

There isn't much passion in CanLit, and I tend to read for emotional exploration.

[lunacy-gal.livejournal.com]

You've hit it on the head. I've found very few characters in CanLit with whom I can identify.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've found very few characters in CanLit with whom I can identify.

If I think for a while maybe I'll come up with a few... I mean, it's easy for the few writers I mentioned about. And L.M. Montgomery. And... um...

Um...

I'm not coming up with much.