In response to my May 23rd posting, Online Book Club reader Cathy McKee decided to go ahead and “Read Canada”, starting in Ontario, with Barbara Gowdy’s  Mr. Sandman (Cathy generously left some of her impressions of the novel in the Comments section: take a look!). She’s braver than you might think: though she is a world traveler (from Northern Ireland), she nevertheless only arrived in Canada this year! And yet it is she who has jumped aboard first! Spurred on by Cathy’s initiative, I’d like to put together a literary itinerary that really represents Canada’s regions, geography, cultural uniqueness and multiples … Continue reading THE ADVENTURE BEGINS! (NO PASSPORT REQUIRED, part 2)