Monday, April 16, 2007

What IS Stephen Harper reading?

I heard a wonderful interview on CBC today. Yann Martell(Author of Life of Pi.If you haven't read it do so immediately!) who lives in Saskatoon was lamenting the budget cuts the Conservatives have made in the area of Arts funding. He decided that Stephen Harper should read some good books that would open his eyes to the power books(and the Arts in general)have to enrich and change us. He started a project where he would send the P.M. a really good book to read every two weeks. He would pick books that were 'short and powerful'. He would post any correspondence on his website(whatisstephenharperreading.ca), and the first book would be The Death of Ivan Ilych.Tolstoy. HA!! I read it when I was a teenager going through my Russian Novel phase. That was after my science fiction phase and before my American Civil rights books phase. I used to read a lot. This has inspired me to read the books that Yann Martell sends the P.M. I'll let you know how it goes.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I picked up the book today; this could be fun.

9:19 PM  

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