Mike recommended the Scottish author Alan Spence to me. I picked up his book "Way to Go" at the BNQ, and I'm loving it.
As an aside, the BNQ is the Biblioteque Nationale du Quebec. For those who can't speak French, that means National Library of Quebec. For those who can't speak Separatist French Canadian, that means the public provincial (state) library in Montreal is called a national library because they think Quebec is its own nation. Argh. It also means that all the signs in the library are in French (not French & English), and half the people working there are *not* bilingual (French only). It's not an issue for me in terms of figuring out where things are, it's more of a matter of principle, because you can't have an all-English library here. However, it is a very big, very useful, well-laid-out library, with unlimited free Internet usage, and they have a fair-sized romans anglais section, so I was able to get Spence's book out of the library. Sweet!
Update:
I got all excited because there were 3 comments in the next hour after posting. Then I realised they were ALL spam. How does spam get onto the blog??
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Glad you're enjoying it!
Spam is sneaky and very intelligent.
Pour arreter les spam...
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i think i'd take spam over an obsessive compulsive 90210 fan.
ah quebec, it actually shocks me that they have a "romans anglais" section at all! (we just read about this kosher foods case...where quebec wasn't going to allow kosher foods from NY into the province b/c they didn't have the required french labels on them - only english and hebrew - so the packaging contravened the quebec language laws...) who needs board game night, you should play silly first year law trivia instead!
Argh - I'm not a fan of their language laws. I understand they want to maintain their culture, but don't be exclusive or silly about it. It just makes people annoyed with Quebec.
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