Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton [1]. A haunting and disturbing account powerfully told and rendered. Beaton is well known for Hark! A Vagrant,

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton [1]. A haunting and disturbing account powerfully told and rendered. Beaton is well known for Hark! A Vagrant, but this is her best work to date. The Kalevala [2]. I am familiar with the Eddas, the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the Finnish national epos was beautiful and refreshingly different. While I'm sure the English translation pales next to the original, it was nevertheless quite lyrical. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59069071-ducks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59069071-ducks [2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elias-lonnrot/the-kalevala/john-martin-crawford https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elias-lonnrot/the-kalevala...