Archive for the ‘Canada Reads 2009’ Category
23
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Review, The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. Tagged: Albertine in Five Times, Les Belles Soeurs, Michel Tremblay, Roch Carrier, Shaw Festival, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant. 2 Comments
The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant
By Michel Tremblay
Genre: Fiction
My first encounter with the genius that is Michel Tremblay came in the theatre while watching Les Belles Soeurs and from the moment the curtain rose. His characters are quirky and often very witty, they are women that you wish you shared a neighborhood. [...]
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10
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Review, The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. Tagged: Canada Reads 2009, Commonwealth Prize, Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name, The Book of Negroes. 14 Comments
The Book of Negroes
By Lawrence Hill
Genre: Historical fiction
Winner of Canada Reads 2009, The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
This is the book of conversation this month for the new CBC Book Club, it’s no wonder why this book was selected since it did win Canada Reads 2009. This was the book that I said would win the [...]
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9
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Review, The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. Tagged: Rabbit Run, John Updike, Michel Tremblay, 2nd Canadian Book Challenge, Canada Reads 2009, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill, CBC Book Club, Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh, Watchmen. 4 Comments
This past was a rather eventful week in the Canadian book work with Canada Reads 2009 having taken place. As usual I had a lot of fun listening to the panelists discuss the books up for the top prize. Now I’m sure many people are hitting the book stores and local libraries for copies to [...]
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7
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Giveaway, Points to Ponder. Tagged: At Home With Books, Canada Reads 2009, Giveaway, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes. 2 Comments
So, I took a little trip to random.org to select the winner of My First Giveaway and it turns out the winner is Alyce from At Home With Books. I hope you enjoy The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. It was a great book that I’ve yet to review but look for that yet [...]
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6
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Giveaway, Points to Ponder. Tagged: Brian Francis, Canada Reads 2009, Fruit, Gil Adamson, Giveaway, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes, The Outlander. 2 Comments
Today is another sad day with the end of Canada Reads 2009. And, as all previous episodes, we started with the revelation of the previous days vote. It ended up, and I must say I was kind of surprised, that The Outlander by Gil Adamson left. Which left Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes against [...]
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5
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Points to Ponder. Tagged: Canada Reads 2009, Fruit, Gil Adamson, Jian Ghomese, Lawrence Hill, Michel Tremblay, Sarah Slean, The Book of Negroes, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, The Outlander, The Outsider. Leave a Comment
Today I morn the loss of Michel Tremblay’s novel The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant from the possible contenders in Canada Reads 2009. I know that I said I mentioned in the comments of yesterdays post but since then I’ve read more of the book and I’m loving the characters in the novel just [...]
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4
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Points to Ponder. Tagged: Canada Reads 2009, David Adams Richards, Jian Ghomeshi, Mercy Among the Children, Michel Tremblay, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, The Outlander. 2 Comments
Well the third day started off with the revelation of the vote that took place at the end of yesterdays episode. And with three votes David Adams Richards’ Mercy Among the Children is the first book to be proverbially put out to pasture. This is the book that scares me the most to [...]
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3
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Literary News, Points to Ponder. Tagged: Brian Francis, Canada Reads 2009, David Adams Richards, Fruit, Jen Sookfong Lee, Mercy Among the Children, Michel Tremblay, Nicolas Campbell, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, The Outlander. 4 Comments
When Canada Reads starts up it seems to be over just as quickly. With that in mind I try to savor every minute of the debates. Today, again, I feel that we have a wonderful group of people on the panel and I really like Nicolas Campbell’s strategy.
In day two there seemed to [...]
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2
Mar
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Points to Ponder. Tagged: Anne-Marie Withenshaw, Avi Lewis, Brian Francis, Canada Reads 2009, David Adams Richards, Fruit, Gil Adamson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Lawrence Hill, Mercy Among the Children, Michel Tremblay, Nicholas Campbell, Sarah Slean, The Book of Negros, The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, The Outlander. 2 Comments
Today was the first day of Canada Reads 2009, is there a better day in the year? I have my doubts. It’s always exciting to hear what the defenders of each book has to say. In case you don’t already know here are the books and their defender:
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill defended [...]
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24
Feb
Posted by thatsthebook in Canada Reads 2009, Review, The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. Tagged: Brian Francis, Canada Reads 2009, Fruit, Giveaway, The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. 4 Comments
I’ve been really slow on the uptake here. I’ve finally read my first book for The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge, Eh! Not only have I read this book for this particular challenge but I’m also reading this for Canada Reads 2009. I hope to get all the Canada Reads 2009 books but [...]
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