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I think I might be shooting myself in the foot with all the CanLit I'm reading right now. The basic CanLit trajectory is, "Things are awful; they get worse; the book ends." Hello, depressing material. I've compensated by squeezing some non-Canadian SFF in around the edges.
BookishTrish We joke about this all the time at my house. It‘s my husband‘s favourite narrative arc. 5y
merelybookish Haha,.yes. My US friend also points out the "bleakness" of Canlit. 5y
kgriffith That made me chuckle 😏 5y
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twohectobooks I‘ve decided to lean in to the bleakness of CanLit and learn to love it lol 5y
xicanti @BookishTrish he's a true Canadian. 5y
xicanti @merelybookish my friend from Boston says New England lit is basically the same. 5y
xicanti @kgriffith we Canadians love our misery. 5y
xicanti @twohectobooks EMBRACE THE PAIN! 5y
academiconbreak I was about to say the bleakness is just Alice Munro and then I went to my can lit shelf to prove you wrong... Sure enough... Thomas King-- bleakness with humour, The Break-- rape, but kinda hopeful?, The book of negroes--slavery...oh damn. Bleakness all the way, sigh. Well, I still love it! 5y
xicanti @academiconbreak I just finished BROTHER by David Chariandy and AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim, too, and they both hammered the national preoccupation right home. 5y
academiconbreak @xicanti That's pretty funny. I guess there's no escaping it. #coldclimatecountries&literature 5y
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