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Currently reading: "CANADA'S DEADLY SECRET: saskatchewn uranium adn the global nuclear system" by Jim Harding with forward by Helen Caldicott, Modern Irish Short Stories ed. by Ben Forkner, "Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader" edited by John Bradley, "READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, A Memoir in Books" by Azar Nafisi,A bit more about me by way or what I have been reading starting from most recent: "Nukenomics: The Political Economy of the Nuclear Industry" by Bill Harding (1979),"Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project" by Rachel Fermi and Ester Samra with intro by Richard Rhodes, "Zones of Exclusion: PRIPYAT AND CHERNOBYL" by Robert Polidori. "Nuclear Power is Not the Answer" by Helen Caldicott, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" by Dylan Thomas, "The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Autobiographies" ed. by William H. O'donnel & Douglas N. Archibald, "Oooo" by Hone Tuwhare, "AMan without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut," James Joyce" by Edna O'Brien, "Through Black Spruce" by Joseph Boyden, "the Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid,"The Black Book" by Orhan Pamuk as translated by Maureen Freely,"Anthem" by Ayn Rand,"MERDE Happens" by Stephen Clarke,"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "J.M Synge: Collected works Plays, Book 1 edited by Ann Saddlemyer,"Man Descending" by Guy Vanderhaeghe,"Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot and Auden" by Richard Ellman, "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner; "Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets" edited by Barbara Klar & Paul Wilson; "Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems" edited by Joy Katz & Kevin Prufer, Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner AND "Cultural Amnesia" by Clive James plus various poetry books. The Canon, A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier, All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Hills, ULLYSES on the Liffey by Ellman, The Spellman Files, a novel by Lisa Lutz 2007, lullabies for little criminals, a novel by Heather O'Neill 2006, Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1926-1939 Copyright 1983 Grain Magazine Summer 2007 NAUSEA: A novel by Jean-Paul Sartre(1938) trans by Lloyd Alexander 1949 ADIEUX, A FAREWELL TO SARTRE by Simone De Beauvoir GRAB ONTO ME TIGHTLY AS IF I KNEW THE WAYby Bryan Charles 2006 - A CHILD'S BOOK OF TRUE CRIME, A NOVEL BY CHLOE HOOPER 2002-"One Damn thing After Another: An Autobiography of HUGH GARNER" 1973 -"The Ghost of Understanding" by JEAN SMITH -"The Body Artist" by DON DELILLO 2001 -The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and other stories by Yann Martel 1993 -SELF, a novel by Yann Martel 1996 -Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2001 Man Booker Prize Winner -one good story, that one by Thomas king 1993 -the KETZER by David Carpenter 2003 -God’s Bedfellows by David Carpenter 1988 -Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter 1985 -JEWELS by David Carpenter 1985 -Banjo Lessons A novel by David Carpenter 1997 -get a life by Nadine Gordimer 2005 -The Translator by Leila Aboulela (Sudanese)1999 -WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen 2006 -J. M. SYNGE Collected Works II Prose edited by Alan Price 1966 -NORA A biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox 1988 -Finnie Walsh by Steven Galloway 2000 -ASCENSION by Steven Galloway 2003 -Fluttertongue: Book 1: The book of games by Steven Ross Smith (poetry) 1998 -JOYCE: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by William M. Chace 1974 -Transient Light by Steven Smith (poetry) 1990 -Lures by Steven Ross Smith (short stories) 1997 -Reading My Father’s Book by Steven Ross Smith (poetry) 1995 -A Confederacy of Dunces (The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring Ignatius Reilly and his marvelous madcap adventures in New Orleans) by John Kennedy Toole Copyright 1980 by Thelma Toole (his mom) -HERE COMES EVERYBODY: An introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader by Anthony Burgess 1965 -The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in Ulysses by Erwin R. Steinberg 1958, 1973 -MERDE Actually by Stephen Clarke 2005 -FELIX ROTH by Cary Fagan 1999 -Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart 1990 -Th!nk (Why Crucial Decisions Can’t be Bade in the Blink of an Eye) Michael R. LeGault (2006) -Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman (2005) -The accidental by Ali Smith (2005) Orange prize shortlist -The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith (2002) -Rip Rap edited by Edna Alford, Don McKay, Rhea Tregebov and Rachel Wyatt (Prose and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts) 1999 -circuitry of veins by Sylvia LeGris (poetry) 1996 -iridium seeds by Sylvia LeGris (poetry) 1998 -2000% Cracked Wheat edited by Edna Alford, Robert Currie, and Don Kerr -An Oak Hunch (poetry) by Phil Hall 2005 Griffin Poetry Award Shortlist (Canada -Little Theatres (poetry) by Erin Moure 2005 Griffin Poetry Award Shortlist (Canada) -DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Good Feather (Thomas King)2002 -A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke (2005) -The Continuity Girl by Leah McLaren (2006) -Me Funny compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor (2005) -On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005) Orange Prize for Fiction winner 2006. -White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000) her first novel -Road Dancers by Alden Nowlan (newspaper columns by Alden Nowlan) -I’m a stranger here myself by alden nowlan (poems) -Amsterdam by Ian McEwan -Nerve Squall by Sylvia LeGris (poetry) 2005 Griffin Poetry Award Shortlist (Canada) -Small Island by Andrea Levy -Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden -Sick Puppy by Karl Hiaasen -A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King -All My Relations: An Anthology of Contermporary Canadian Native Fiction edited by Thomas King -The Truth About Stories by Thomas King (two times) -Hey Rube by Hunter S. Thompson -Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson -Counterparts by Nicolas Royle -Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje -What I’m Trying to Say is Goodbye by Lois Simmie -Larry’s Party by Carole Shields -The Return of the Ring By JR Tolkien