Clara Callan
Registered by tanabata on 5/30/2004
10 journalers for this copy...
Winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Award for Fiction. One of the best books I read last year!!!
Book Description from Amazon.ca
Clara Callan tells the moving story of two sisters seeking love and fulfillment during the Great Depression. While Nora escapes small-town Ontario for New York, where she becomes the star of a popular radio soap opera, her older sister Clara follows a more conventional route, remaining at home and teaching school. Yet, as Clara’s diary and correspondence reveal, beneath the seeming ordinariness of her daily life the spinster schoolteacher hides dark secrets and clandestine longings.
Richard B. Wright won both the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize for his sensitive portrait of this quietly passionate woman who defies social mores by getting involved with a married man. Told entirely through letters and diary entries, Clara Callan brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the 1930s, when show business was still in its infancy and the world trembled on the edge of war.
Book Description from Amazon.ca
Clara Callan tells the moving story of two sisters seeking love and fulfillment during the Great Depression. While Nora escapes small-town Ontario for New York, where she becomes the star of a popular radio soap opera, her older sister Clara follows a more conventional route, remaining at home and teaching school. Yet, as Clara’s diary and correspondence reveal, beneath the seeming ordinariness of her daily life the spinster schoolteacher hides dark secrets and clandestine longings.
Richard B. Wright won both the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize for his sensitive portrait of this quietly passionate woman who defies social mores by getting involved with a married man. Told entirely through letters and diary entries, Clara Callan brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the 1930s, when show business was still in its infancy and the world trembled on the edge of war.
Sending this out as a bookray.
List of Participants:
bookmaniac70 (Bulgaria)
pjmom8025 (US)
vibrant-art (Canada)
Nelle (Canada)
lauraloo29 (Canada)
RikkiDD (Germany)
List of Participants:
bookmaniac70 (Bulgaria)
pjmom8025 (US)
vibrant-art (Canada)
Nelle (Canada)
lauraloo29 (Canada)
RikkiDD (Germany)
Received today.I read two books at the moment but they are not too long,so I hope to start this one soon.Thank you for sending!
Started reading.
I finished the book yesterday and enjoyed it. I liked the simple "matter of fact" way of writing. Clara was undoubtedly a nice character with a hidden charm.It was interesting to follow her metamorphosis from a dull schoolteacher to a kind of scandalous figure in the village.I admired her for being able to transpass her own limits and I think that someway deep down they were not so different with her sister.Having a baby from Frank was a bit too trivial for my taste.I was disappointed also that she continued to lead her boring village life and in reality,confined herself again within her limits...but I suppose there was not much she could do.
Thank for passing this book along,I had a good time reading it.
Will be mailed to next person.
Thank for passing this book along,I had a good time reading it.
Will be mailed to next person.
Journal Entry 7 by bookmaniac70 at by mail in To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Released 19 yrs ago (10/19/2004 UTC) at by mail in To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to the next participant.
Sent to the next participant.
This book arrived in the mail today. I'll try to get it read and off again in the next month (by December 4th). Thanks for sharing!
For some reason this book came to me before pjmom8025, who is ahead of me and has been waiting for it. So I'm going to pass it on to her now, and if she wants to skip me when she's done to keep it moving, that's fine.
Received this book in the mail today. I don't know who I am sending it off to as there was a mixup in the mailing order. I have a couple of books ahead of this one and will get to this as soon as possible.
Starting this book today. Looking forward to read a Canadian literary prize winner.
I loved this book! I loved the relationship between the sisters and the lesbian friend. Getting all this information thru letters and Clars's Diary. There was alot of interesting historical entries that brought the time period to life in the mid-late 1930's.
I will be shipping this off tomorrow unless the roofers block my car in (smile). This book will be going onto Vibrant-Art
I will be shipping this off tomorrow unless the roofers block my car in (smile). This book will be going onto Vibrant-Art
I was suppose to send this book out yesterday. We we suppose to have roofers come and start on our roof. They never came, and I had ended up at home waiting for them most of the day. The book got sent out this morning to Vibrant-Art in Quebec.
Just received this yesterday...looking forward to reading it! I'll journal again just before I finish reading the book.
Just finished reading this and will send it on within the next week! I'll add to this journal entry soon.
Received today from vibrant-art (along with some lovely artwork)
Thanks a lot! I will read it ASAP and send it on to lauraloo29 .
Thanks a lot! I will read it ASAP and send it on to lauraloo29 .
I grew up in rural / small town Ontario in the 1940's and I think the depiction of the societal mores and lifestyles of a decade earlier is probably fairly accurate. Without divulging too much of the plot, I would like to say that I admire Clara for being true to herself in the decisions that she made. She didn't wish to spend her life as a spinster schoolmarm but neither was she cut out for city life. She was lucky to have the support of her sister and several friends to assist her in carrying out her plan. I feel the characters were very believable and admire Richard Wright's insight into the female psyche. I enjoyed the book...especially the Afterword. Don't peek, Laura!
I will be mailing this off to lauraloo29 in Edmonton tomorrow.
I will be mailing this off to lauraloo29 in Edmonton tomorrow.
Arrived today. I have 2 bookrings before it, but I will keep it moving. Thank you!
Started this book yesterday. I wasn't sure about it, but I believe I have gotten into it now. I hope to finish it this week.
Finished this today on the way home from work. Interesting how we don't tell people everything. How much is missing from the letters. I'm sure on the part of Nora as well. I did like the hints of history throughout. How the world changed around them.
I'll send this on next week to Germany. Thank you for sharing!
I'll send this on next week to Germany. Thank you for sharing!
I received the book today. Thanks for sending
Journal Entry 23 by RikkiDD at -- Somewhere In London 🤷♀️ in -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, September 4, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (9/14/2005 UTC) at -- Somewhere In London 🤷♀️ in -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom
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I know it is not a really exact place and time, but I still don't know where and when I set the book free.
I set the book free in the pub Stamford Arms near Waterloo Station on Tuesday the 13th September.
I know it is not a really exact place and time, but I still don't know where and when I set the book free.
I set the book free in the pub Stamford Arms near Waterloo Station on Tuesday the 13th September.
am happy to send this book on or leave for someone to collect
CAUGHT IN MARAKECH MOROCCO
CAUGHT IN MARAKECH MOROCCO
I picked this up from an OBCZ near Waterloo. I took it to Morocco and it was a really nice read on my travels. The writing was a nice change of pace. I released it in Marrakesh, but have only just been able to journal it.
