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I think we are all Fifth Business from the outside; we are all the Protaganist (Boy) from our own perspective. This is where Jung comes in. We are the ego for ourselves, and the world is our story, but we ultimately recognize we are only watching the story of others, and are bit players in that story. We are become Dunny, watcher of lives.

Can you please explain feminism in Ross novel?

hello niga

Meanwhile, 8 years later, I have to comment that I agree that Tomson Highway HAS cracked the "Canadian code" as you put it. He is making our culture with his books. I just finished Permanent Astonishment, a memoir of his, and your words apply to this book as well as his fictional Kiss of the Fur Queen. Canadian culture, whatever wisp that is, surely grows out of our native voices. I was born on this land, not in a snowbank, maybe, but I still need the voices of the land like Tomson's.

Could you please do a vdo on Enchantment and sorrow by Gabrielle Roy.... It's in our syllabus

Oh hay, I just read this book and really enjoyed it, which led me to look up videos about it and here we are. I’m glad you mentioned the witch and the girl, and was disappointed they didn’t end up in the movie. I don’t think the witch cursed Eli, but rather protected him, which is why the girl says he’s “protected.” Terrible things happen all around Eli, yet he never truly comes to any harm. He’s really the only one! I have to say I really enjoyed the other side-characters too. The crying man, the optimistic fellow with the dirt coffee, the kid everyone liked to beat on. And the horses and mules all had great names, none of which come to me right now. Great video!

I’m loving this book. Enjoyed your insight very much! Thanks.

What page was the quote on?

Thanks! excelente review even tho its have been more then 6 years!

There is a dearth of analysis on this book; thank you so much for diving into it. I changed my name in 2010 because of this book. It means a lot to me and I wish there was more discussion/content about this novel.

Just thank you for talking about this book.

Please suggest some of T.Kings other novel that are in the style of green grass,I've been leary of committing to buying one I won't like,cuz I hear he did detective novels and many other book types that wouldn't resemble g.grass in anyway shape or form.

When bedridden from healthproblems,my mom got me season 1 Dead Dog Cafe,so when I was over the pyche & injury's from getting slugged over my head, having my belongings stolen & waking up under some bridge, anyway when I got better I just had to find if Thomas King had more radio or books,at Barnes and Noble I got this book in 2007,I read& re-read it,find knew stories woven into the main plot,and esoteric meanings to his dialogues.. Finally I had difficulty rereading the same over all story to gather one itty bitty nuance that I'd missed.Good choice of a review.I mostly as a rule only read nonfiction,because in MOST cases they can won't have any real info or world history told as fact.But I did love this book.If King has any others THIS good I'd love to order them.

The CBC did a wonderful radio drama of all three books but I cannot find the recording

Great, review. You might want to say that there are spoilers, though.

Please sens me this book i need it for m'y PhD M'y adress is: 11 Ben Saad Tayeb -Khenchela 40000 -Algeria

Insightful commentary on the novel, thank you for inspiring me 🌷

well-done....thanx...beautiful

can anyone, please, tell me where has this girl gone? where is she?!

For once i don't have to comment on this book, Tom is my brother and I have to say he is very good, hard for a brother to say.

:12 Jeff Lemire lol

This Trilogy was about the best fiction I've ever read. I can't believe I forgot about him. That's what being really old and burnt out will do.

I like Thomas king for his puns and humor and irony and i liked watching you narrating those puns with a smirk on your face. GGRW is a difficult book to read coz of its non linear non chronological structure but u have done a Good job here and it makes a lot of sense.

Wow... you can´t believe how much this video have helped me understanding this book. As a Chilean (latin America) I'm completely unaware of most of the themes this book deals with... However, your readings and descriptions made me realize of how our history is still kind of related. Thanks for you great work!

do you know in what day of Mrs. Bentley's journal did she say "These false fronted little towns have been holding us together..."?

Hi can you please comment all the quotes? Thank you.

K ur discussion is good except i live in ontario and i REALLY dont think it feels Canadian or it feels comfortable or anything just an opinion...

I loved this book.

I got this as a free ebook as an attendant of the Vancouver Writer's Festival a few years back. I read about half-way and dropped it because I found it really boring thus did not hold my attention. As for the Canadian thing...well any book by a Canadian is a Canadian book in my eyes. If you think of CanLit as a genre as some do, it probably does not fit traditionally. If you think of CanLit as a genre itself (very literary and about/set in Canada or immigration in Canada) than that likely excludes genre (SFF, YA, thriller, etc) books by Canadian writers too and just seems silly to me? American literature is often criticized for being so insular (i.e writing about itself a lot) especially in contrast to British literature where many award-winning writers set their book outside of or not exclusively about Britain. To put parameters to what is and not "CanLit" just does a disservice to and demoralizes the writing culture here in Canada.

Interesting video. I’m surprised to hear that you feel Mrs. Bentley is “passive” or that readers write her off. You talk about the ways imagined readers would respond to Mrs. Bentley’s struggle if the same decisions had been made by a man, saying that the reader would feel sympathy for the character and also go so far as to applaud Ross for a “realistic depiction of human error.” Don’t you feel we do this for Mrs. Bentley? I know I did. You say that, because our narrator is a woman, “we” wonder if Ross is chauvinist, and I can’t get my head around that. Nor am I persuaded that a male author’s depiction of a woman who regrets some of her decisions necessarily means that she is written as weak or passive. I would argue that Ross very ethically and sensitively gives Mrs. Bentley voice, and I would also argue that she has the most power in the novel. Literally everything and everyone is mediated through her. Not only is she the character who tries to revive her own life as well as Philip’s, but she does so through the act of writing which is inherently active. I see AFMAMH as being a feminist novel. Certainly the life that Mrs. Bentley experiences is unlike anything that most modern Canadian women would encounter, and she is subject to pressures and expectations that are unfamiliar now, but I feel that the way she navigates these issues and remains in control of her narrative means she is a character who maintains her agency throughout the novel. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and wrapping us up!

Fiiiiinallly a giveaway where I can participate living in Canada!!!! I am doing my happy dance right now :D:D:D

Basically everything you said was fascinating. Loved loved loved your review.

Ohhhhh this discussion is wonderful and beautiful and lovely!!

i love your discussion. please make more book videos because they are so interesting and fun to listen to

I love listening to Emily talk.

The one tiny fault I find with these videos is that the element of the prose style that jumped out at me was never really discussed : the juxtaposition of the eloquent language with the very clipped and abrupt sentence structure. Did that strike anyone else?

Yay! Thanks Anansi! (such a great publishing house :) PS: That floral bomber.

And today is the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag! Every Canadian needs to enter this giveaway ♡

Why do I not live in Canada? :(

This sounds like a wonderful, quiet, and contemplative read. Your review is thorough and yet leaves me wanting more so I have added this to my TBR so I can experience for myself.

This was wonderful. I finished the novel minutes ago and was left with so many complicated emotions. I also picked up on the subtext early on in but was slightly confused by the events at the end. This particularly theory does make Phillip a slightly more sympathetic character. But only slightly.

what an absolutely beautiful video - and so thoughtful as well! And - steady yourself now - about a book I'VE NEVER READ! Something of a first for Booktube! I'll look for a copy tomorrow during my bookshop rounds.

I read this last fall. It's so short (I read it in a couple hours while commuting), but I liked it. You have a great edition of the book. I love those old colourful New Canadian Library editions. I pick them up whenever I see them. I enjoyed watching you talk about this book. I'm thinking about it in new ways now.

I read this book immediately after a breakup so it made me think about the ways that we change ourselves, adapt and compromise in relationships -- because of love or convention -- and how these sacrifices can really make partners resent each other. Oh happy thoughts! Your ideas are super interesting, and make a lot of sense, but I'm curious how the later events you referred to fit into that theory?

I read this book years ago for a summer correspondence course in canlit I needed to take in order to graduate on time. I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I'd had this video to accompany me! I didn't dislike it, but rather I think I just didn't delve into it as much as it would take me to really love it. Reading moody canlit while you are trying to enjoy the gorgeous summer felt, at that time, a hindrance. (I put Settlers of the Marsh in this same category too, oh man.)

Oh great, I love this. A book a month is pretty daunting when you only read a couple per month. I want to read along with you guys this year! Moving Forward and Bread and Bone in particular.

It's great that you are reading something by Rae Spoon, I will definitely try and join you for that one as well as Bone & Bread because that sounds amazing as well. I'm just glad Hello Hemlock will still be in my subbox, I love this channel a lot and you do great work.

I really want to read more Canadian Lit so I hope to join in for one of the reads this year!

Oh man, so non-Canadians can take part too now? THIS EXCITES ME GUYS :D I definitely want to try and join in more with reads this year because CANLIT

Supah excited about this friends! I enjoyed reading and talking about Carnival way back when so this will give me more exposure to Can Lit! Time to find some of these books. :)