ContestManitoba Reads: Drumroll for Twelve Drummers Drumming

Winning a contest is always better than a lit cigarette in the eye, I say - not that I've had a lot of lit cigarettes in the eye, but then I haven't won a lot of contests either. It was good to find my book in such fine company, both long list and short-listwise.

—C.C.Benison, author of Twelve Drummers Drumming

On Friday, September 21, four passionate book lovers debated four Manitoba books. Alix Sobler, Jonathan Ball, Rosanna Deerchild and Mike Green were part of a live recording for THIN AIR 2012 at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. The debate was hosted by CBC's Ismaila Alfa and excerpts were broadcast on the Weekend Morning Show on Sunday September 23.

The winner is C.C.Benison for his first in a cozy new whodunit series featuring vicar Tom "Father" Christmas. True to form, C.C.Benison's reaction was witty while appreciative.

"Winning a contest is always better than a lit cigarette in the eye, I say - not that I've had a lot of lit cigarettes in the eye, but then I haven't won a lot of contests either. It was good to find my book in such fine company, both long list and short-listwise."

Here are the results:


            
Manitoba Reads is a friendly competition organized by THIN AIR writer's festival, McNally Robinson Booksellers and CBC that involves you, the audience, to help choose a book for all of us to read.

Thanks to all who voted!