NEXT MEETING
Just a reminder that the next meeting is on Friday, June 22 at Barb's. Topic is Canadian aboriginal fiction - First Nations, Inuit, Metis. See you there.
posted by Kathryn at 1:53 PM
Monday, June 11, 2007
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Sorry I can't be at the genrestudy, however I did read Eden Robinson's Blood Sports. As a Haisla woman living in a Kitamaat Village, Eden Robinson knows the life of the downtown eastside Vancouver. Her accurate descriptions of the Carnegie Centre, the two main characters, Tom and Jeremy Bauer, who are cousins intertwined in lives of drug and crime is fascinating. The blood sport refers to the gruesome account of the torture, the pain, the blood of Tom's kidnapping. The story moves back and forth in time, giving background to the cousins, their lives, then bringing the scene back to the blood sport, through the letting of the first to the fourth blood. Some of the story is written as in a movie script. The book gave an insight to the dark underworld of Vancouver's crime scene and I would recommend, though for the squeamish the violence is graphic and difficult to take.
I probably won't be able to come to the next meeting. Our two admin staff decided to have their joint retirement party on that night.
Cheers
Rhian
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