>>55967204Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a sexual relationship with a bear.
The writing community has issues, but we're also very territorial since if you're reading X's books, you're not reading Y's books. (etc)
It's competitive.
I guess at the end of the day we should be happy Shiori is stirring an interest in reading.
