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Reading, sharing and reviving the best books about Canada's North.

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Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land, a raw, dreamy, investigative look at the N.W.T., past and present

Where — I’ve asked myself repeatedly — is the book that sums up the N.W.T., tackles the confusion and history of it and does it in an engaging, complex, real way? It’s here. 

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 9th Jul 2020 4 Minutes

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

“How prepared are we now?” Barry asks, writing sometime in 2004, after finishing his definitive account of the 1918 flu pandemic. His biggest worry had to do with “governments and the truth.”

saraminogue Uncategorized 2 Comments 3rd Apr 202014th Nov 2020 4 Minutes

An Arctic Man, the classic memoir by Hudson Bay Boy Ernie Lyall

This book is an actual classic, or at least the cover of the 2011 re-issue I have says it is, and that cover is right.

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 20th Mar 2020 5 Minutes

Life Among the Qallunaat, a vital memoir by Mini Aodla Freeman

If you want a detailed, human, funny and tragic picture of changing Inuit life in Canada in the 1950s and ‘60s, look no further.

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 8th Mar 202019th Jul 2021 5 Minutes

The Greenlandic phenomenon of Last Night in Nuuk

I bow to anyone who lives in a city the size of Nuuk (17,000) and writes a book that is this honest and sex-fuelled. 

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 8th Aug 201927th Aug 2019 3 Minutes

Georgia: An Arctic Diary offers sketches of life in Igloolik in 1982, with a central mystery

I’m weirdly fascinated by this book. More by its existence than its actual contents.

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 3rd Jun 201927th Aug 2019 3 Minutes

About this blog

Northreads will feature articles and reviews of books, new and old, that are about Canada’s North, with a heavy emphasis on the Eastern Arctic and the N.W.T. The goal is create the ultimate reading list for people who want to know more about Canada North of 60.

saraminogue Uncategorized 1 Comment 1st Apr 201919th Apr 2019 1 Minute

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