Colleen won!

Colleen Gleason won DABWAHA!!!!
Go give her some congrats!
Edit: Link fixed!

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Award News

It looks like the Quill Awards have been suspended.
If it folds I can’t say I’d really miss it. I never really got all that excited about them. Although I was more likely to have read a couple of books on the list than the Booker nominees. Or even the Gillers.
I don’t think I ever really [...]

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The Cybils are up!

The last of the Cybils short lists have been posted.
Here’s the YAs.
I’m not surprised to see The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is there. Is it really as good as everyone says? I’m starting to feel a little hyped out by it but maybe it’s just because I haven’t read [...]

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It’s GG Shortlist Day!

The GG’s are here! The GG’s are here!
Of course there are so many categories in the GG’s that the shortlist isn’t really so short. There are 74 books!
In the fiction category it’s no surprise that both Ondaatje and Vassanji are on the list. I mean, we all expected that right? BUT! BUT! Heather [...]

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I’ve got a big ole backlog of stuff

It really isn’t that I’ve been lazy lately. It’s more that I’ve been busy. I had company for a weekend. I went to Ottawa. I went to Wawa (home of the world’s largest goose!). And that’s just over the last 10 days! So I know y’all will forgive me for being behind.
So this is a [...]

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Giller Long List Announced

2007 Giller Long List
David Chariandy, Soucouyant.
Sharon English, Zero Gravity.
Barbara Gowdy, Helpless.
Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air.
Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes.
Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather.
D.R. MacDonald, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart.
Claire Mulligan,The Reckoning of Boston Jim.
Mary Novik, Conceit.
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero.
Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us.
M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin’s Song.
Michael Winter, The Architects Are Here.
Richard Wright, October.
Alissa [...]

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Charles Taylor Prize

The Charles Taylor Prize Nominees were announced.

Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Volume 1 1919-1968 by John Engligh (Knopf)
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in a Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe

Another all boys club…

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Canada Reads - the all-star edition

I really wasn’t expecting this to be announced this early. They don’t run Canada Reads until February (Feb 26 - March 2) Hmmm I didn’t think they did it until April. Guess I was wrong.
The books and their defenders:

Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis and defended by Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies.
Children [...]

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Cybils Nominations

I was responding to Denise’s post about the Cybils nominations at Fast Times at Homeschool High when my comment was getting ridiculously long so I moved it here. I am really only looking at the YA nominations.
Denise asked, ” Who should win? Who will win? Which book(s) on these lists would you NEVER recommend [...]

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It’s Giller Day!

The Giller Prize will be announced tonight.
If I’m awake tonight I might watch…but mostly to see Justin Trudeau.
But the story on the news this morning, which I am unable to find online, is about DeNiro’s Game by Rawi Hage. Supposedly the book it littered with grammatical and spelling errors. The ones [...]

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