Who doesn’t love a good book debate?! Canada Reads 2015 is coming up.

I’m not enamoured with these finalists though. Ru and The Inconvenient Indian are both very good. But the other three aren’t all that appealing to me, so maybe I won’t bother reading all five finalists this year. Overall it’s not an outstanding crop, like last year’s was.

There were a couple of books on the long list that I would have liked to read, and I was hoping those would make the cut so I’d have an excuse. Maybe I’ll just read them instead!

Thoughts on Canada Reads 2014:

• Disappointed that The Year of the Flood was eliminated on Day 1, and Half-Blood Blues on Day 2. But so it goes.
• I might have to give Cockroach another try, or maybe something else by Rawi Hage. Sam Bee makes a compelling case.
• Wab Kinew is awesome!
• The Orenda is outstanding – it and Joseph Boyden deserve this win.
• Yay CanLit!