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Canada Reads: Better luck next year
We noted recently that four of the 40 contenders for this year’s Canada Reads list were written by Newfoundland and Labrador authors. (To recap, they were Kenneth J. Harvey, Michael Crummey, Lisa Moore and Jessica Grant.)
Alas, the top 10 list that was released a little while ago has … none of them on it.
Darn.
In the meantime, you can follow the Canada Reads competition here. The final five will be unveiled later this month, as well as the panellists who will duke it out in the winter.
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Canada Reads: Will a local book make the cut?
Voting for the latest Canada Reads competition closes on Sunday night, and it’ll be interesting to see if a local book makes the next cut.
Newfoundland and Labrador makes up, what, only 1/60th or so of the Canadian population, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the list of contenders for the upcoming competition on CBC.
This province generated 1/10th of the books on the list. There are 40 on the longlist, and four of the books that were suggested by bloggers, writers and various other contributors happen to have come from Newfoundland and Labrador.
The four nominees are, in alphabetical order:
- Michael Crummey, for Galore
- Jessica Grant, for Come, Thou Tortoise
- Kenneth J. Harvey, for Inside
- Lisa Moore, for February
Each of the books is quite acclaimed. All have a connection, incidentally, with the Winterset Award; Harvey won it a few years ago for Inside, while the remaining three books happened to be the nominees last year. (Jessica Grant’s novel, her debut, was the winner.)
The competition, though, is formidable. The top 10 list will be revealed on Tuesday. We’ll keep you posted.
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How to screw up a movie based on a book
Book lovers are all too familiar with a particular sinking feeling: namely, squirming in a chair while you watch a really horrid adaptation of a book you quite liked.
Kimberly Walsh of the CBC Book Club posted an entertaining 10-point infographic on the book club’s page. The first two are in the excerpt above; click here to see the full thing.
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Summer reading
Reading anything good this summer? Our colleagues are collecting your ideas; feel free to chip in here.
