This weeks recap: Doug Ford vs. Margaret Atwood, Nominees of the Man Booker Prize, Required Readings of Young Adult Distopian fiction & an interview with Simon the intern at the New Quarterly magazine.
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b4b#31 – July 28:
The Notes – Part 1:
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Keith Mansfield - Funky Fanfare
Theime – Dirty Drugs
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Toronto City Councellor Doug Ford stirs some commotion in the literary field by stating that he wouldn’t recognize Margaret Atwood if he saw her and that the only way he would hear her thoughts on library budget cuts would be if she were in politics.
In local news, the Guelph Library will keep its Bookmobile running as they have keep it in the budget.
Apparently in New York, 50% of library circulation has fines. They are implementing a new project aimed at youth to read off their debts. I wonder how much my library accumulates in fines?
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Doug Paisley – No One but Me
Doris Duke – I Don’t Care Anymore
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The Man Booker Prize has been announced for this year. Canada has 3 of 13 nominees. They are Patrick de Witt for The Sisters Brothers [Harper Collins], Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues [Thomas Allen], and Alison Pick for Far to Go [House of Anansi].
In the Required Reading Segment, Peter recommends The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain [McSweeney's] by Tamler Sommers, Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus.
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Willie Harper – You You
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In our Summer Reads segment, we look at the latest Walrus Summer Reading issue (July/Aug) and dissect the article “The 5 Rules of Writing”
And we also look at parody musician Weird Al Yankovic’s children’s book When I Grow Up [Harper Collins]
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The Link Quartet – Move Move Move
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The Notes – Part 2:
We come up with a series of classics of Distopian novels for young adult literature classes:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Cure by Sonia Levitin
The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Reuben Howell – Funny How Time Slips
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We interpret the distopian notion that that is either political or environmental strife as a large scale under the guise of a utopia, and as Peter aptly put it, all these novels have that “Bar mitzvah moment when youth grow their wings”. Could a distopian definition have a personal oppression as well?
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Frederick Squire – The Human Race Can Be
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We review 3 books on topic of young adult distopia lit ; The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, and Divergent by Veronica Roth.
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Lab Coast – Pictures on the Wall
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Finally, we finish the show with an interview with intern Simon at the New Quarterly magazine about the poetry scene in Canada.
