Words that have influenced me 2010:

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The Incident of the Dog in the Night................Mark Hadden 
The Retreat.....................................................David Bergen
An Unexpected Break in the Weather..............Deborah Shnitzer
Fences in Breathing........................................Nicole Brossard
Self..................................................................Yann Martel
The World More Full of Weeping.....................Robert J. Wiersema
Falling Under...................................................Danielle Young-Ullman
shopgirl...........................................................Steve Martin
Banishing Verona............................................Margot Livesey
An Ordinary Decent Criminal...........................Michael Van Rooy
Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal..............Michael Van Rooy
Two Foot Punch..............................................Anita Daher
Love That Dog............................................... Sharon Creech
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies............Sonya Sones
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.....Kate DiCamillo
Remember the Night Rainbow.........................Cooper Edens
The Windplane Man........................................Patricia Ann Thain
What is my Dog Thinking?..............................Gwen Bailey
Scattered Minds..............................................Gabor Maté, M.D.
The Mind Tree................................................Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Drinking Water...............................................Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way.............................................Julia Cameron
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom..............Dr. Christine Northrup
Understanding Menopause............................Janine O'Leary Cobb
The Fables/Jean de la Fontaine.....................Elizur Wright translation 
Cet été qui chantait........................................Gabrielle Roy
Sans bon sang...............................................Annette Saint-Pierre
Vincent et moi................................................Michael Rubbo
La route de Chlifa..........................................Michèle Marineau
Le chatouille-coeur........................................Claudie Stanké
La faim refoulée.............................................Deborah Hautzig
Broutille..........................................................Claude Ponti
Moun..............................................................Rascal & Sophie
Clément Aplati................................................Jeff Brown & Tony Ross
Sens dessus dessous....................................Monica Beisner
J'étais enfant au pays minier..........................André Stie
Ink Monkeys....................................................Diana Hartag
SouwestoHome...............................................James Reaney
Undone...........................................................Sue Goyette
The Woman Downstairs..................................Julie Bruck
Trouble Sleeping.............................................Phil Hall
Inter Alia..........................................................David Seymour 
The Burning Alphabet.....................................Barry Dempster

. . . and, of course, those words my students write & share, as well as important words transcribed this year that helped me understand even further the plight of aboriginal women living on the prairies . . .