{"id":56,"date":"2005-08-24T08:40:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T08:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","slug":"heres-the-book-im-hoping-they-dont-choose-to-read-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the book I&#8217;m hoping they don&#8217;t choose to read this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOne of the things I&#8217;m doing this fall in <a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/180\/\">my contemporary Canadian literature course<\/a> is having the students propose and, by election, select the final book that we will study in the course.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe great thing about this exercise is that it will oblige them to start looking to see what&#8217;s out there. The other fun thing about it is that they and I will likely be discovering this book simultaneously. I&#8217;m looking forward to going along with whatever they choose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/23\/books\/23big.html?ex=1282449600&amp;en=3834949e06179bee&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">here&#8217;s the book I&#8217;m hoping they won&#8217;t pick<\/a>, even if it is written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungersbrides.com\/\">a fellow Albertan<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to reading it eventually, though. The website for the book has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungersbrides.com\/special_features.html\">great features<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you&#8217;re interested in reading Paul Anderson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nwpassages.com\/profile_book.asp?ISBN=0679310886\">Hunger&#8217;s Brides: A Novel of the Baroque<\/a>, you can buy the Canadian edition right now from <a href=\"http:\/\/nwpassages.com\">Northwest Passages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;m doing this fall in my contemporary Canadian literature course is having the students propose and, by election, select the final book that we will study in the course. The great thing about this exercise is that it will oblige them to start looking to see what&#8217;s out there. The other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-literature","category-teachingadvising","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}