A month ago I attended the Authors’ Market at MareGold in Annapolis Royal. This Saturday (August 12) will be the second Authors’ Market.
It has taken me the full month to read Bob Bent’s Ida Red, in part because I prefer non-fiction. Ida Red is a fictional Love story set in East Clarence. It is a long story, over four hundred pages.. There is a distinct pleasure in recognizing the geography : names of roads, the physical landscape and the sense of community.
Several times, I nearly gave up. Fortunately, I continued to the surprising ending. The last hundred pages would not allow me to stop reading. Congratulations to Bob Bent on crafting this page-turning story ending.
While in Kentville (waiting on car repairs at Honda) I reached the conclusion, and associated food for thought, about living in rural Nova Scotia.
In Kentville, I stopped at Gaspereau Press. I was able to purchase Harry Thurston’s latest poetry book Ultramarine. At the Half Acre Café, there was time to grab the latest Grapevine (August 2023). I noted Wendy Elliott’s column Books by Locals. She reviewed Organizing Nature by two Acadia University academics, Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro, published by University of Toronto Press.
‘The duo used the lens of nature-society to examine how ecosystems have been turned into Resources’. Another trip to the Lawrencetown library is in the offing.
From the Reader, I note startingTuesday, August 15 there will be an Acadian Map exhibit at the O’Dell House Museum in Annapolis Royal hours 9:30 – 4 pm Tuesday to Saturday. Maps from 1686 to 1755.
Acknowledgements
Heather shared my delight in a story set in Clarence( East Appleton)
References
Bob Bent 2023. Ida Red. A Love Story. 442pp. Self-published.
Harry Thurston. 2023. Ultramarine. Gaspereau Press.
Wendy Elliott. Books by Locals. The Grapevine. Arts, Culture, Community. August 2023 No 20.08 p.10.
Ernest Blair Experiment 