Prize watch: (update November 19) Congrats to ALL the winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, including Thomas King for his novel The Back of the Turtle, and Michael Harris for his non-fiction work The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection. I might add both to my wish list of books to possibly read someday. I’ve never read any of King’s fiction, though I did enjoy The Inconvenient Indian. And The End of Absence sounds intriguing, like it will further fuel my love/hate relationship with the interwebs.

(October 8) I warned you it would be a busy week for CanLit – the short lists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards are out. I like to see what’s on the English fiction and non-fiction lists; for those of you interested in poetry, drama or children’s lit, there’re lists here for you, too!