I Read Like the Ink From the Book Is Oxygen and I'm Gasping for Breath
"Reading gives us some place to go when nosotros have to stay where nosotros are." Robyn Scott, president of the NWT'southward Northwords literary festival, has that mantra on a poster.
This yr, she is finding that poster more than meaningful than always. "Even though a lot of our travel plans are on concur, or our professional goals nosotros're not able to pursue, we can yet have adventures," Scott says.
"We tin can still have connections with other people, fifty-fifty if they're through stories and through fiction."
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That'southward why Cabin Radio asked you what yous've been reading during the pandemic.
On this page, we have compiled a collage of voices across the territory explaining what they're reading and why it speaks to them right at present – from fighting dragons in a fantastical faraway kingdom to looking over someone's shoulder in a personal memoir.
Fort Smith author Patti-Kay Hamilton finds tales of courage and resilience go a long way for her in times of crunch.
"Things have been worse," she says. "There accept been horrible, horrible things happen in the earth. And yet people carry on and live to tell the tale, and often later thrive."
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Hamilton has a item story in mind when she says this: By Take a chance Alone, by Canadian author Max Eisen.
In his memoir, Eisen recalls narrowly avoiding death in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the 2nd Earth State of war. It'due south a haunting and difficult read, Hamilton admits, but it'due south ultimately a story of perseverance.
"It'southward [a] story of someone who probably shouldn't have survived, and yet he did," she says. "He went on to have a family unit and alive a adept life. So, what's a virus?"
Below, explore the books keeping other NWT residents going during a difficult 2020.
Some answers have been lightly edited for clarity.
Heather Fenton
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
"I bought the book from Yellowknife Volume Cellar in the spirit of supporting local businesses. I was fatigued to it because information technology is written past an Indigenous-Canadian author. The pandemic has really exaggerated global inequalities and injustices, and I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on my privilege and empathize with diverse perspectives in the promise that humanity can motility forward together, while being gentler with themselves, each other, and the environment."
Antoine Mountain
We Remember the Coming of the White Human being edited by Elizabeth Yakeleya, Joe Blondin, Sarah Simon, and others
"This volume includes Dene Elders talking nigh their memories of the 1928 influenza epidemic, which wiped out upwardly to fifteen pct of the Ethnic population of the North. Information technology was brought nearly by the Hudson's Bay Company supply boat."
Samantha Stuart
Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
"Jessica's one of my all-time friends and I bought her book right away, but oasis't had the time to read information technology. Now, with the cooler nights and extended daylight, I've been enjoying reading it, as I grew upwardly in the area (northwestern BC). With the contempo passing of May 5 – the National Twenty-four hours of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls – it was time to finally read this 1. I was the same historic period as these girls who went missing and I but had no idea, because of how quondam I was. I know my friend, the author, poured her middle into writing this volume, and information technology's making such an impact."
Patti-Kay Hamilton
Moccasin Square Gardens past Richard Van Military camp
"I'm re-reading Richard Van Camp'south Moccasin Square Gardens. During the anxiety of Covid-19, while we are all walking on eggshells trying to recall to social altitude, Richard's stories are like a warm hug that lead y'all unafraid into exciting worlds where fifty-fifty a gentle porcupine springs to life in a Wheetago war. Richard not merely writes compelling stories, simply he besides encourages northern writers to challenge themselves and look at our world with fresh eyes."
Aingeal Rock
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire N
"There are three themes brought up by The Sudden Appearance of Hope, to my mind. Hope has been isolated from society all her life because no ane remembers her. Her relationships only last every bit long as she keeps the attending of others; it takes less than 60 seconds for her to be out of someone'southward view and they have entirely forgotten her.
"So, as we isolate from society to avoid Covid-19, I wonder if 'out of sight, out of mind' happens? Practice people think of me when I'm not around to brand myself known? So many parallels can exist drawn between Hope'south isolation and what the globe is experiencing correct now.
"As well, the concept of perfection. Perfection is a construct, it does non exist, it is non real, and can never exist attained by flawed and finite humanity. Yet the concept of perfection is an idea that business concern capitalizes on and is a multi-billion-dollar industry. It leads to mental wellness issues (ie body dysmorphia), financial insecurity, a caste system, and other social issues."
Zoila Castillo
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
"It was i of the kickoff books I read where the lines were blurred between right and incorrect, but not good and evil. The more Lecter speaks and Clarice listens, the story grows. An unabridged world is congenital organically, rather than being explained all at once. I love stories that make me call up and force me to put the pieces together myself."
Barbara Paquin
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
"I belong to the Yellowknife United Church book club. This volume was reviewed in our national church magazine, Broadview, and was recommended by a book club member. It is a novel based on a true case of corruption of women and girls in a traditional Mennonite colony in Republic of bolivia. I think there are several lessons in the book that are important. They include the lessons that:
- instruction boys how to behave and how to treat women with respect is the responsibility of both women and men;
- domestic and sexual abuse are never acceptable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice;
- men and women need to equally share leadership and conclusion-making for a community; and
- a group of ordinary people can come up together in customs, overcome their fear of the unknown, and have the resilience to make important decisions.
Although this is a tough book to read and digest, we constitute the time of quiet we are experiencing during Covid-19 gave us the ability to actually think nearly the theme and significant of the novel."
John Mutford
The Good Place and Philosophy: Go an Afterlife (Based on the boob tube show) edited past Steven A. Benko and Andrew Pavelich
"As fans of The Good Place would attest, information technology really makes philosophy fun and understandable (even practical). The book only delves a lilliputian more into the concepts introduced in the show, and so I feel like I'm bettering myself somewhat with pedagogy during quarantine. This sounds ho-hum, I know, merely the book keeps with the show's absurdist humour!"
Mike Auge
The Stand up past Stephen King
"I read Stephen King's The Stand right at the beginning, when the Covid-19 situation was just starting to ramp up. What spoke to me the most about reading this particular volume during a pandemic was how surreal information technology was comparison the situation in the book, when the pandemic was breaking out, to the state of affairs in real life. Particularly when information technology came to things like misinformation, withholding data, and conspiracy theories. The similarities betwixt reactions in the volume and things I would run across on Twitter or Facebook were creepy at times. Thankfully, our survival rate is a little bit meliorate for Covid-19 than information technology was for Captain Trips."
Theri Dube
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
"I love fantasy books filled with magic and adventure. I've been reading this serial since I was almost eighteen. I don't know how many times I've read them to be honest, but it'south been fourteen years. I've been an obsessive reader since before kindergarten. I'm besides a creature of habit and rotate through similar six different serial and just re-read everything. It's squeamish to become lost in someone else'due south world, someone else'south story for a fourth dimension. I tend to tone out my environment entirely. My hubby could exist talking correct in my confront and I don't even hear him.
"It's most definitely my favourite pastime. There'due south a quote I've seen a number of times on Pinterest that always speaks to me. Information technology says, 'I read like the ink on the page is oxygen and I'grand gasping for breath.' I don't know who said information technology, but I keep it on my tattoo board for '1 solar day.'"
Fiona, Freyja, and Annika Atkins
Annika's Picks:
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Liard
"A friend gave it to me."
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow past Jessica Townsend
"I started reading information technology ii years ago and didn't understand it. I started once again and dear it."
Freyja's Choice:
Mockingjay past Suzanne Collins
"I wanted to read the Hunger Games trilogy because I had heard they were good. I wasn't immune to watch the movies until I finished the books."
Fiona'south Picks:
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
"Because I love him! My dream as a kid was to be Courtney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video."
Shantaram past Gregory David Roberts
"It was given to me when I left Australia and have never finished it. No excuse at present!"
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