The Next Chapter’s Shelagh Rogers picks her favourites

By Shelagh Rogers, for CBC News Posted: Dec 19, 2014 1:58 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 22, 2014 2:39 PM ET

“Even though I now live in a rain forest, when I hear “holidays,” I think of snow, frost and darkness. There’s a reason it’s called the ‘bleak’ mid-winter.

But what I treasure about the holidays is that there is time to hunker down with some good books and let the stories draw me into other worlds. I don’t need to feel guilty about not being outside moving around aerobically in the lovely weather. There isn’t any. Or at least, not too much.

There are so many good indigenous books right now. My friends at CBC Aboriginal asked for five “great books” for the holidays, so this is an act of discipline. Putting on my literary spanx, here we go.” LINK.