AN ANANSI READER

In honour of The Anansi Reader we think it only appropriate to showcase you -- An Anansi Reader. Each month, we’ll shine the light on someone just like you, maybe someone nothing like you. But you all share one thing in common -- you make up the face of Anansi.

This month, meet Michelle Dionne!
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Anansi: With nicer weather upon us, do you find your reading rituals changing to outdoor settings?

Michelle: Every summer, we spend a good deal of time at the cottage. A favourite ritual (endlessly repeated) is to go down to the dock after dinner with a glass of single malt and read until the sun sets. Daytime reading is, of course, nice too -- but there is nothing like the stillness and the golden light of the end of the day to add to the enjoyment of a good book.

Anansi: Do you have a favourite Anansi book or author? Who and why?

Michelle: I especially like the nonfiction books by Anansi. There are so many great thinkers in Canada that deserve attention. If I had to choose a favourite Massey Lecture (so hard to do!) it would be Stephen Lewis's Race Against Time. I still love picking up The Everyday Activist by Michael Norton and reading a few pages at a time. Right now, I find myself re-reading Feeding the Future [Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon (Eds.)] and being amazed at how prescient it was about the food crises we're seeing in the news today.

Anansi: When you love a book do you let others know about it or do you keep it your own private secret?

Michelle: Of course I have to share. And I expect others to share their favourites with me!

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If you’d like to be considered for a future Anansi Reader Q&A, email Julie Wilson at julie@anansi.ca.

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