{"id":5914,"date":"2012-02-24T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2012-02-24T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T06:00:30","slug":"vancouver-books-49th-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/02\/24\/vancouver-books-49th-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver books @ 49th Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a piece published today at the 49th Shelf (formerly Canadian Bookshelf) today. It’s a piece in which I finally have an opportunity to talk about Renee Rodin’s memoir Subject to Change, a book I’ve wanted to highlight for a while. I also include Taxi!, Crossings and Adventures in Debt Collection.<\/p>\n

Here is the opening to the piece, click the link to read the rest.<\/p>\n

The domestic features significantly in my debut novel\u00a0Malarky<\/em><\/a>. Domestic territory and behaviour are surveyed, examined and subverted within it. Lest this give the impression I am way domestic, I assert from blast off that vacuuming is the sole household task I excel at. If there was a way to vacuum and read simultaneously I would do it. I have succeeded in walking and reading.\u00a0 I have almost succeeded at knitting and reading, but vacuuming and reading still evades me.<\/p>\n

When I was frustrated writing\u00a0Malarky<\/em>\u00a0I would turn on the vacuum. The straight lines, diagonals and heave-ho repetition improved my disposition, but inevitably my mind wandered to books I wanted to revisit. Sometimes to simply reacquaint with a sole paragraph.<\/p>\n

Here are some, of the many, local Vancouver books that have caused me to strand the hoover in the middle of the floor and search for a paragraph or moment in them.<\/p>\n

To continue reading click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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