Prize watch: The Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2015 long list came out today – and it includes CanLit!! Yay! You already know how much I liked Heather O’Neill’s The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and loved Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Oh yeah, it includes 18 other books that look good, too!
Prize Jury Wannabe: Canada Reads 2015
Remember when I said I wasn’t going to read the Canada Reads finalists this year? Of course I read the Canada Reads finalists this year. Continue reading
Lammys 2015
Prize watch: The finalists for the 27th annual Lambda Awards were announced this week. The Lammys celebrate and recognize excellence in LGBT literature published during the year. Congrats especially to the Canadian finalists!
Taylor Prize 2015
Prize watch: Congrats to Plum Johnson, winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize for her memoir They Left Us Everything. Haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but it looks like a good one.
Folio Prize 2015
Prize watch: Yesterday, the eight finalists for the Folio Prize were announced. HUGE congrats to Canadian Miriam Toews, as All My Puny Sorrows made it to the short list and very deservedly so. It’s an impressive list of finalists; I recommend 10:04 and will definitely be reading a few others!
Fact and Fiction: Two Places I will NEVER Visit
Fiction is just another way of telling the truth. If you’re reading this blog, you’ll probably agree with that statement. Continue reading
Reading Adventure Hints and Ideas, Part 1
So we’re just over a month into 2015, how’s everyone doing with the Reading Adventure? I hope you’re not stressing about the categories – when I said “broad interpretation” I really meant it! Continue reading
NBCC Awards 2014
Prize watch: The 30 finalists (five finalists in six categories) for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced this week. I’m interested to see what happens in the fiction category – a few of these are on my wish list. (The one I did read, Lila, I thought was “meh.”)
Canada Reads finalist announcement 2015
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!
A list of lists: 2015 Previews
I must be a glutton for punishment. I’m still wading through last year’s best of lists – make that years worth of best-of lists – yet can’t stop myself from peeking at these previews of all the literary goodness to come in 2015. Sure it’s exciting, but the punishment part is that I will never be able to read them all! Continue reading