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I finished reading The Grey Wolf on December 6.
Does anyone get the (very tiny) link between that date, my temporary profile picture, and the book?
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Oooh, a challenge! I will have to think on this one, but I’ll bet someone else here will figure it out…
Are you referring to the shootings at the Ecole Polytechnique? Such a tragedy.
Ah yes! I think that’s it exactly Susan.
Yes!!! And did you find the person in the Grey Wolf who reminds us of that event 35 years ago? It’s one of those little Easter eggs that LP hides in her stories but she does explain it a few pages later.
pp. 376 and 391
Yes, I had noticed that when I read the book, and thought it was so wonderful that she had put that in. And I loved that character– she was courageous, resourceful, smart — and kept JG on his toes! She helped save the day, and it made me think about those women who lost their lives so needlessly, and wonder how many contributions to the world they could have made by now if they hadn’t had their lives cut so short. It shouldn’t have happened, and the world shouldn’t forget that it did, nor the ridiculous “reason” behind it.
Well said, Susan. It was a terrible tragedy. A nice tribute to the book and the event, Angie.
I was a grad student in the neighboring province of Ontario at the time. At a university with a very large faculty of engineering. The shooting felt very personal to me, and I have never touched a gun, before or since. I thought of that when Jean Guy has to ask the young woman to take the gun and, if necessary, shoot.
I have never forgotten the young women who died. Thanks, Susan, for thinking of what they could have achieved.
I found “A World of Curiosities” so very difficult to read because it took me back to those days in December 1989. But I am grateful for the character of the young engineer in The Grey Wolf.
I loved finding that little Easter egg too, Angie. This is a tragedy all of us Canadians will never forget. It was such an incredible shock that this could happen at all, but that it happened in Canada seemed so much more devastating to me, even though I was far away in BC at the time.
I also love your little challenge and guessing game. No shock that Susan knew the answer so quickly; it’s difficult to get anything past some of our clever friends here!
I think Louise’s efforts to honour these young women is wonderful. She’s brought awareness of the tragedy to those who previously didn’t know and a reminder to us who did. I also appreciated her tributes to them in both WOC and TGW. And I appreciate your post here as well.