Litterature & Documents: Les Saisons de la Solitude (Book)

from TadAD

I half-wondered if Boyden's second novel would engage me as his first, Three Day Road, did or whether it would turn out to be a case of a wistful "Oh well!" for another author lacking staying power. It was the former; I didn't want to put the book down. Like his first novel, this is told by alter...

from ParadisePorch

Having read Joseph Boyden's amazing Three Day Road, I was more than eager to read his second novel Through Black Spruce. Road was set during The Great War, a time period I particularly enjoy reading about. And, of course, the ending left every reader wondering what had become of Xavier Bird. I wa...

from LynnB

When I read "Late Nights on Air", I really wondered why it had won the Giller award. I had no such puzzlement after reading "Through Black Spruce". This is the story of Will Bird, who is in a coma as the story begins. He narrates every second chapter and we learn about his life in northern Ontari...

from cassiopia_cat

The novel Through Black Spruce is written by alternating chapters between Annie Bird's story, a somewhat confused loner and niece to, Will Bird, bush pilot, who lies in a coma in a hospital bed. Annie shares her story, while seated at her uncle's bedside, about the search for her sister in the in...

from TadAD

I half-wondered if Boyden's second novel would engage me as his first, Three Day Road, did or whether it would turn out to be a case of a wistful "Oh well!" for another author lacking staying power. It was the former; I didn't want to put the book down. Like his first novel, this is told by alter...