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How about a good book for Dad? Next weekend may be Father‘s Day but.for booksellers and publishers it‘s no day off. They‘ll all be gathered for the anâ€" nual trade fair at the Metro Convention Centre sponsored by the Canadian Booksellers Association. Publishers vie for attenâ€" tion with their Big Falil Books. Bookseliers get long arms from toting catalogues, posters, advance copies and other paraâ€" phormm . I‘I give you my preview for the coming season next Meanwhile, some ramblings about books that I‘m currently reading or wish I had time to, with a few suggestions for Dad thrown in. (I won‘t even mention Dâ€"Day.) Comac McCairthy won the National Book Award (US) for fiction in 1992 for Al the Preffy Morses. it was the first of the Border trilogy: The Crossing (Knopt, $29.95), the second vol ume, is just out. Last Sunday‘s New York Times Book Review was an exercise in hyperbole that couldn‘t praise it highly enough. With comparisons to Twain, Faulkner, Melvilie, Cerâ€" vantes and Shakespedre (and that‘s not all), this is no.mere cowboy saga. I quote the reviewer, Robert Haas: "A writer‘s moral relation to these storles is like nothing so much as a craftman‘s relations to his tools, and nothingness is .. to be built against, sentence by sentence, ..if hopelessly, in the knowledge of the doom of all human intention, then indefatiâ€" gably, in the knowledge of the skills of a trade that has been passed down to orle and that will be passed down in turn to Traction on the Grand by John Mils (Raiifare, $10) traces the history of the electric railways along the Grand River. It‘s sure to satisty local rall buffs (your dad?) but others may be put off by the typeface (as it it had been composed on an old manâ€" ual typewllter) and the twoâ€"column format. Now that the tracks have been removed from Caroline Street, we have fewer reminders of the days of trolley cars. I‘ve often wondered why antiâ€"smoking campaigns fOCUS _ gng j EEM"'"' ar hunbeneact 1 ~ * We IWVnn ing ever happened to him, I would be sad. I wish Pecone reone hore ramere mew in Jrae heos 4o ime _ That he could Iive forever. He is the best Dad that anybody l Starts 10 p.m. reasons people smoke. Perhaps why they have so could ever have. Even my cat likes him (and I can see why). impact, especially on teenagers. Cigareffes are Sublime (bYy _ tigye a good one Dad. Richard Kiein, Duke University Press, $30.75) addresses these reasons, in fact he explores the role of cigarettes in controlâ€" Chuck Erion is the owner of Words Worth Books e o o o o o 0o o o o o o 0o 0o 0o 0 0o 0o 0o o 0o 0 0o 0 0o 0o o 0o 0 0o 0o 0o 0o 0o 0 0 o Labies NMiGHP oo mm e e wiolfy o ling the interaction between reason and the outside world. *Joining inside and out, each puff is like total immersion: it bapiizes the celebrant with the little flash of a renewed senâ€" sation, an instantaneous, fleeting image of the unified Mol." msonebgytoopiecaofcmurdmmy,opmm in human interaction, that, like the trolley car, may be Calll it traditional, but if your dad likes to fish, there are more than a few books on the subject. | wish I could fish, and so doecmvyomgestson,b\nldoubtmom'soskloccedble through book instruction. Nonetheless, tales about fishing do teach at least patience. The Lifile Book of Fishing (Atlantic Monthly Press, $22.75) is a lovely anthology by writers like Red Smith, Emest Hemingway, Nick Lyons and Thomas McGuane. They left out Norman Macilean (A River Runs Through if). | think I‘ll read it to my son. Fathers and Daughters is a collection of photographs by Marlana Cook (Chronicle Books, $26.95). The blackâ€"andâ€" white portraits draw the viewer in, teasing us to summarize the complex relationships between daughters and their dads. The text, a response from the participants to their picâ€" tures, rarely clear away that complexity. Here is what Celestia Peregrina Loeffler,perhaps 11 years old, says about her tather, an ethnographer in New Mexico: | love my Dad very much, and if anything ever happened to him, | would be sad. | wish that he could live forever. He is the best Dad that anybody could ever have. Even my cat likes him (and I can see why). Have a good one Dad. Chuck Erion is the owner of Words Worth Books E, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1994 â€" PAGE 17 Ez Ryder, Maverick, ___ PLUS! Battle of the Sexes Saturday, June 18/94 Show Times 12:30 â€" 5:00 9:30 â€" 12:30 Saturday, June 18 MISS BIKIN! NETWORK or any other occasion Just Call and Leave the Rest To Us. Only at: Waterloo‘s Network ONE NIGHT ONLY BIRTHDAYS, DIVORCES, DRAWS FOF FREE TABLE