Prize watch: Congrats to all the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Americanah and Sheri Fink for Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. (Both were on my list of top reads for 2013. Finally, for once, the critics and I think alike!)
Author Archives: shelf-absorbed
The Folio Prize 2014
Prize watch: Congrats to George Saunders, winner of the inaugural Folio Prize for his collection of short stories Tenth of December.
2014 Taylor Prize winner
Prize watch: Congrats to Thomas King, winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. I look forward to reading my newly signed copy!
Canada Reads 2014
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!
Reading Bingo: February
Another month, another four squares off the Reading Bingo card. Continue reading
Reading Bingo: January
Just as I was about to embark on this challenge, I read a great post over at Book Riot the other day about throwing reading plans and challenges and lists out the window, Continue reading
Bingo, Anyone?
I love a (crossing-things-off-a-list type of) challenge! So when Retreat by Random House offered up Reading Bingo 2014, I was hooked. Continue reading
Top Reads of 2013
