Canada Reads Discussion
Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
Well, folks, here we are. On Monday morning, our steadfast Canada Reads defenders will turn the reins over to the celebrity panelists. From there, it...
Friday, February 4, 2011 |
Our preview chats with panelists started on the East Coast. We've crossed the country to end with a panelist who makes his home on the...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 |
At the Canada Reads launch, Carol Shields's daughter, Anne Giardini (who is also a writer), said that she had an interesting story about Unless and...
Monday, January 31, 2011 |
Last week, we visited Essex County by Jeff Lemire. This week, we move from the country to the suburbs as we explore Carol Shields's Unless, which...
Saturday, January 29, 2011 |
The Canada Reads team has stepped up to the plate to defend their chosen title every week. They're now experts on the subtleties of strategy,...
Friday, January 28, 2011 |
There are only two weeks left until the Canada Reads contenders duke it our for the coveted title. Until then, we've got you covered, offering...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
It's been a while since I left Essex County. By that I mean both the fictional version of the place as well as the real...
Monday, January 24, 2011 |
Last week, we dove into The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou. This week, we turn our attention to Essex County by Jeff Lemire. We'll talk to...
Saturday, January 22, 2011 |
This week we asked the Canada Reads defenders to take the measure of their competition: who would be their chosen book's toughest opponent in the...
Friday, January 21, 2011 |
The countdown to Canada Reads is on. We're less than a month away to the battle of the books. We visited Nova Scotia with Debbie...
Monday, January 17, 2011 |
Last week, we looked at Terry Fallis's The Best Laid Plans here on the Canada Reads site. This week, we're moving from the political ring...
Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
Last week, the Canada Reads debaters revealed their favourite characters from this year's novels. This inspired us to turn the tables and ask you: who...
Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
The Canada Reads defenders are back this week, this time ready to declare their favourite scenes in their chosen books. From hovercrafts to healers, each...
Friday, January 14, 2011 |
As this year's Canada Reads debates draw closer — have you circled February 7, 8 and 9 on your calendar? — we're gearing up by...
Saturday, January 8, 2011 |
Before the holidays, we had members of the Canada Reads team each pick a current contender to defend. They explored their chosen title's first impressions,...
Friday, January 7, 2011 |
For the next five weeks, we'll be offering you a sneak peek at this year's panel...how they'll prep for the debates and why they think...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
"We change, whether we like it or not." Ralph Waldo Emerson Halifax underwent great change after the Halifax Explosion, an event that figures in...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
My house stands at the edge of the earth. Together, the house and I have held strong against the churning tides of Fundy. Two sisters,...
Saturday, January 1, 2011 |
Shelagh Rogers interviewed each of the Canada Reads 2011 authors for The Next Chapter. These interviews aired weekly from November 29, 2010 to December 27,...
Friday, December 31, 2010 |
With the holidays upon us and a New Year on the horizon, this week at Canada Reads has been dedicated to revisiting video highlights of our...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
This holiday week, kick back and relive the highlights of our live launch, which took place on November 24. Jian Ghomeshi hosted the event,...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
Lots of great Canada Reads material is still to come in the New Year. But this holiday week, we're taking a look back at some...
Monday, December 27, 2010 |
We'll be rolling out lots of exciting Canada Reads material in the weeks to come. But this holiday week, as the end of the year...
Sunday, December 26, 2010 |
Last week we asked you to tell us which Canada Reads book was most "Canadian." It's a topic that comes up time and time again in...
Saturday, December 18, 2010 |
Whenever the Canada Reads debates roll around, the topic of which book is the "most Canadian" always comes up. And why not? Canada Reads is...
Friday, December 17, 2010 |
Canada was Carol Shields' adopted country, but she rose to become one of our most beloved literary figures. Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois....
Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
Listen: In the clip below, Carol Shields' daughter Anne Giardini reads from Chapter 5 of Unless. In this scene Reta recalls the history of...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
Jeff Lemire's Essex County consists of three interconnected graphic novels (a Canada Reads first!) — Tales from the Farm, Ghost Stories and The Country Nurse....
Monday, December 13, 2010 |
Listen: In the clip below, author Jeff Lemire reads from a bonus story from Essex County. The Essex County Boxing Club explores the history of one of...
Saturday, December 11, 2010 |
The theme of this year's Canada Reads campaign was finding the "Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade." Given the theme, the final five were very surprising....
Friday, December 10, 2010 |
The Birth House is set in rural Nova Scotia nearly a hundred years ago, but this remarkable story didn't find its way onto the page until an...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 |
Listen: In the clip below, author Ami McKay reads from Chapter 26 of The Birth House. On December 6, 1917, Halifax was devastated by an explosion (you...
Monday, December 6, 2010 |
Listen: In the clip below, author Terry Fallis reads from Chapter 2 of The Best Laid Plans. In this scene, former political speechwriter Daniel...
Thursday, December 2, 2010 |
Listen: In the clip below, author Angie Abdou reads from Chapter 9 of The Bone Cage. In this scene, aspiring Olympic wrestler Digger Stapleton...
Congratulations to Nicolas Dickner and Michel Vézina! Nikolski is the winner of Canada Reads 2010. After Good to a Fault was voted off early...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
The heavyweight book of Canada Reads 2010, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees, was the second book voted off. It seems like its defender...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
Goodbye Generation X! It's always a bit sad to see the first book voted off. It's usually at this point that the panelists remember...
In yesterday's chat with Hannah and Jian, participants overwhelmingly thought that Michel Vézina had the best argument after the first day of debates....
In Day One of Canada Reads, FOYK was criticized by Roland Pemberton for being too dark. In Monday's live chat, Natalie, who defended FOYK...
At 3 p.m. ET, join CBC Book Club host Hannah Sung and special guest Canada Reads host Jian Ghomeshi as they discuss the...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 |
One of the major plot points in Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault deals with cancer. Just like in real life, it unfortunately touches...
Welcome to the discussion thread all about Wayson Choy`s The Jade Peony! I'm your moderator, Angela@CBC.Let's talk a bit about characters this week: who is...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
Over at the Nikolski: Six degrees of separation discussion, sdring had an interesting idea I'd like to start a new thread with and that...
Friday, February 19, 2010 |
August C. Bourré really hates Generation X. Earlier this month, he wrote a blog explaining why he disliked it so much. Though he criticizes...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
One of the things I loved about FOYK was Ann-Marie's depiction of the relationship between the Piper sisters. I think she really captures the...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
The cast of characters in Good To A Fault are a handful, to say the least. They have vibrant and distinct personalities that provoke...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 |
[SPOILER ALERT]: @trudymorgancole on Twitter has posed the question: "Was it brilliant or just frustrating that the characters never discover links between them?" Personally,...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
Welcome to the discussion thread all about Wayson Choy`s The Jade Peony! I'm your moderator, Angela@CBC, and I'm pretty excited about this book. I...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
Hi, I'm Rosie@CBC and this is the spot to discuss Marina Endicott's novel Good to a Fault. This book is one of the two...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
Hi, welcome to the discussion about Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees. I'm Barb@CBC, your moderator, and I hope you'll have lots to say...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
Welcome to the discussion blog for Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. My name is Andrea@CBC and I'm the moderator...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
Greetings, fellow bookworms! It's your friendly neighbourhood geek girl, Kimberly@CBC (also @AliasGrace), here to moderate the discussion around Nikolski. This is a book that really...
