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I finished this one a couple of weeks ago - “The Republic of Nothing” by Lesley Choyce. This was a recommendation by the late Neil Peart (drummer and lyricist of the band Rush), who was a prolific reader and accomplished author himself. He wrote the afterword to this version too.
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting with this book. The setting of Nova Scotia made me think it would be like The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx, which is set not far away in Newfoundland, and also concerns a small maritime community in Canada. I suppose it is similar, but there’s a lot here I wasn’t expecting (the Vietnam War, local politics, the supernatural, eccentric refugees). And there’s certainly plenty of plot and plenty of characters. It’s a quirky sort of book which stays with you after you’ve read it.
Should you be interested, Neil’s other recommendations can be found here, but I warn you it’s a long list …
Neil Peart’s mammoth reading list: The drummer’s favourite books of all time
I worked through the whole list over the course of a few evenings. I knew many of them already, but I selected about four unfamiliar books which looked promising based on the summaries and reviews I found online. This is the first one I've acquired.
-R
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting with this book. The setting of Nova Scotia made me think it would be like The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx, which is set not far away in Newfoundland, and also concerns a small maritime community in Canada. I suppose it is similar, but there’s a lot here I wasn’t expecting (the Vietnam War, local politics, the supernatural, eccentric refugees). And there’s certainly plenty of plot and plenty of characters. It’s a quirky sort of book which stays with you after you’ve read it.
Should you be interested, Neil’s other recommendations can be found here, but I warn you it’s a long list …
Neil Peart’s mammoth reading list: The drummer’s favourite books of all time
I worked through the whole list over the course of a few evenings. I knew many of them already, but I selected about four unfamiliar books which looked promising based on the summaries and reviews I found online. This is the first one I've acquired.
-R
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