Bad news, guys. Random House is not offering up Reading Bingo this year. The good news is, there are plenty of other sites and blogs that have come up with reading challenges for 2015, ranging from a few tasks to well over a hundred. (Reading challenges seem to be quite popular these days!) But the bad news is, I didn’t really like any of those. So the best news of all is, I made one just for us! Continue reading
Top Reads of 2014
Happy New Year gang! With not much time left in 2014, we’ve come full circle – back to where we started, with a roundup of my favourite books I read throughout the year. It was another mixed bag of reading – genres and topics and locales and time periods galore. I guess if there’s a recurring theme to be spotted in my book choices, it’s war, or the aftermath of war. Continue reading
Your 2014 Reading Bingo Cards
The results are in! Here are the Reading Bingo cards you guys submitted. Continue reading
Further Reading On Reading: So Long, 2014
I think I’m going to dub 2014 the “year of the infographic.” They were cool at first, but it’s getting to be a little much already. I included one below, but for the most part, I’m going to spare you. Continue reading
A List of Lists: Best Books of 2014
Oh geez… it’s that time of year already?!?!?! The deluge of “best books of the year” lists has started. Peruse at your own risk. If I add any more books to my wish list, my head may explode, so I’m not even going to look. Well, maybe just a quick peek… Continue reading
Reading Bingo: November
Cue the fanfare… my Reading Bingo card is complete!! Continue reading
Reading Bingo 2014: Your Turn!
You may not have been keeping track, but I bet, loyal readers, that if you look back on what you’ve read this year you’ll be able to cover a bunch of squares for Reading Bingo. Maybe you’ll get a line, or two, or the corners, or some other funky pattern. Or maybe you’ll cover the whole card!
So how about this… Use this handy form to tell me what books you read this year that qualify for Reading Bingo. I’ll collect all your submissions, and before the end of the year, I’ll put together a post showing YOUR Reading Bingo cards.
Then we can all add even more books to our wish lists!
IMPAC Dublin 2015
Prize watch: Wow, the long list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award really does live up to its name! There are 142 books nominated – 11 of them by Canadians. I suppose when you are the richest literary prize in the world (€100,000) you can have the longest long list. Continue reading
NBA 2014
Prize watch: (November 19 update) Congrats to Phil Klay, winner of the National Book Award for fiction for Redeployment. The book is outstanding! I think the National Book Award shortlist may be the best one of all the 2014 awards. I have three more of the finalists here waiting for me to read them, and the last one is on my wish list. Also congrats to Ursula K. Le Guin, who was presented with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation. Continue reading
GG Awards 2014
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. Continue reading