I anticipate this book will reveal stories that will amaze and inspire, and remind me again why our planet’s biodiversity is so special,” says Buddle. It is a natural history book about a group of birds called caracaras, which are truly amazing animals. “Staying with the ornithological theme, I plan to read A Most Remarkable Creature: the hidden life and epic journey of the world’s smartest birds of prey, by Jonathan Meiburg. It was also timely as I visited McGill’s Rare Book collection in mid-July and saw some of the plates from Audubon’s Birds of America (incredibly, McGill has in its Blacker-Wood collection a complete set of this rare and incredible “book” I put book in quotation because his life-size paintings of birds are done on 3 x 4 feet sheets so it is a truly giant book, and it contains over 400 paintings. The book is so interesting, and connects to history, science, and art. It’s a very dense and well researched biography of JJ Audubon, whose paintings of birds (done in the early 1800s) transformed natural history.
“My dad recommended this one to me because we have a shared love of nature and especially birds. “In the non-fiction realm, my early-July-vacation-beach-book was John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes,” says Buddle. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Repin (1891) “I thought I would share a couple of titles I have already read (one while on a beach in Nova Scotia), and two that I am planning to read,” writes the Associate Provost (Teaching and Academic Programs). We kick off the festivities with Chris Buddle, a McGill Reads stalwart who speaks for many of us when he says “Summer reading is really the best.”
As always, it was an absolute joy to compile.
McGill Reads, Summer 2022 Edition – a large and wonderfully unwieldy collection of reviews, opinions, asides and the occasional glimpse into the personalities of the people who breathe life into this endeavour. The list below is our little stutter-step toward normalcy, our small effort to reassemble the McGill Reads community – the diehard regulars, the occasional contributors, the first-timers, and those people who just like to peruse the offerings in search of a great book to curl up with.Īnd so, here it is. While many of the same concerns still occupy our thoughts, we’re also re-establishing the balance in our lives and re-awakening those small parts of ourselves that have laid dormant over the past weeks, months and years. We felt as though people had other, more pressing concerns.īut now seems like a good time to relaunch our summer list. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war.The Garden Parasol by Frederick Frieseke (circa 1910)Īs with so many things we regularly enjoyed, the summer edition of McGill Reads had been shelved (ha ha) for the past two years. Welcome to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world both alien and magical, where gigantic hurricane-like storms scour the surface every few days and life has adapted accordingly.
BRANDON SANDERSON BOOKS REALATED ARCHIVE
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive Boxed Set I includes books 1-3 in the epic fantasy series. This mass market paperback boxed set includes: The Way of Kings Words of Radiance. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war.
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