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Giller 2020 Longlist Reaction
I'm pleased with the official Giller longlist. My predictions regarding six of the titles were correct, so that feels good. They are:Five Little Indians by Michelle GoodDominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie KelloughIndians on Vacation by Thomas KingPolar Vortex by Shani MootooThe Glass Hotel by Emil...
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I'm pleased with the official Giller longlist. My predictions regarding six of the titles were correct, so that feels good. They are:Five Little Indians by Michelle GoodDominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie KelloughIndians on Vacation by Thomas KingPolar Vortex by Shani MootooThe Glass Hotel by Emil...
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My 2020 Giller Longlist Predictions
The Scotiabank Giller prize is awarded for the best Canadian book. I couldn't find anything on their website that elaborates on the parameters for a "best book." Obviously, since it's a literary prize, literary quality is paramount. But what, exactly, is a literary piece of literature? There does...
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The Scotiabank Giller prize is awarded for the best Canadian book. I couldn't find anything on their website that elaborates on the parameters for a "best book." Obviously, since it's a literary prize, literary quality is paramount. But what, exactly, is a literary piece of literature? There does...
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Graphic Novels for the Giller Prize
2020 is the first year that graphic novels are eligible to win the Scotiabank Giller prize. I assume they must fit the guidelines for other eligible books, which is that they be novels or short story collections. YA novels and comic books are NOT eligible. There's a helpful Crazy for Ca...
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2020 is the first year that graphic novels are eligible to win the Scotiabank Giller prize. I assume they must fit the guidelines for other eligible books, which is that they be novels or short story collections. YA novels and comic books are NOT eligible. There's a helpful Crazy for Ca...
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Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonHouse of Anansi, September 2020A stunning experimental novel about the web of life.Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg member of Alderville First Nation. "Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for 'in the bush' and t...
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonHouse of Anansi, September 2020A stunning experimental novel about the web of life.Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg member of Alderville First Nation. "Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for 'in the bush' and t...
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Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz
Songs for the End of the World by Saleema NawazMcClelland and Stewart, August 2020Audiobook [15 hr] read by 16 narrators plus the authorThere's nothing quite like reading a pandemic novel set in late 2020 during an actual pandemic in 2020. It's even about a coronavirus. Saleema Nawaz wrote and re...
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Songs for the End of the World by Saleema NawazMcClelland and Stewart, August 2020Audiobook [15 hr] read by 16 narrators plus the authorThere's nothing quite like reading a pandemic novel set in late 2020 during an actual pandemic in 2020. It's even about a coronavirus. Saleema Nawaz wrote and re...
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You Will Love What You Have Killed by Kevin Lambert
You Will Love What You Have Killed by Kevin LambertTranslated from French by Donald WinklerEnd-of-the-world surrealism in the voice of a child in Chicoutimi, Quebec.Are you up for something totally weird? Something in a macabre vein? Faldistoire, the gay boy who narrates this tale, is already jad...
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You Will Love What You Have Killed by Kevin LambertTranslated from French by Donald WinklerEnd-of-the-world surrealism in the voice of a child in Chicoutimi, Quebec.Are you up for something totally weird? Something in a macabre vein? Faldistoire, the gay boy who narrates this tale, is already jad...
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Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger
Coming Up for Air by Sarah LeipcigerHouse of Anansi, March 2020Three stories braided into an elegant novel, based on a true story.In the prologue, we meet l'Inconnue, the unknown woman. She is a French lesbian who explains how she drowned herself in Paris in 1899. Later chapters fill in her backs...
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Coming Up for Air by Sarah LeipcigerHouse of Anansi, March 2020Three stories braided into an elegant novel, based on a true story.In the prologue, we meet l'Inconnue, the unknown woman. She is a French lesbian who explains how she drowned herself in Paris in 1899. Later chapters fill in her backs...
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Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth StintziArsenal Pulp, April 2020I took in the gorgeous prose in small sips over the course of two months. John Elizabeth Stintzi is a nonbinary author who uses a fragmentary, surreal style. It's a rewarding story about memory and coming to terms with a difficu...
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Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth StintziArsenal Pulp, April 2020I took in the gorgeous prose in small sips over the course of two months. John Elizabeth Stintzi is a nonbinary author who uses a fragmentary, surreal style. It's a rewarding story about memory and coming to terms with a difficu...
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August 2020 Reading Round-Up
Recent Canadian fiction has been the focus of my reading life this month, as part of my Shadow Giller jury project. Out of the 30 books I read in August, 18 were for the Shadow Giller. As usual in my monthly round-up, I will share brief reviews of the best. These include audiobooks, translated fi...
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Recent Canadian fiction has been the focus of my reading life this month, as part of my Shadow Giller jury project. Out of the 30 books I read in August, 18 were for the Shadow Giller. As usual in my monthly round-up, I will share brief reviews of the best. These include audiobooks, translated fi...
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Tim Hortons in Canadian Literature: An Even Dozen
With all the CanLit reading I've been doing for the Shadow Giller project, I've come across a lot of references to Tim Hortons. To make it an even dozen, I'll start with a link to an online sugar cereal review by Canadian author Brian Francis. Did you know that there's a Tim Hortons breakfast cer...
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With all the CanLit reading I've been doing for the Shadow Giller project, I've come across a lot of references to Tim Hortons. To make it an even dozen, I'll start with a link to an online sugar cereal review by Canadian author Brian Francis. Did you know that there's a Tim Hortons breakfast cer...
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The Union of Smokers by Paddy Scott
The Union of Smokers by Paddy ScottInvisible Publishing, March 2020A tale of trauma, a "theme essay," told in the singular bantering voice of a white twelve-year-old boy, Kaspar Pine, who might be on his deathbed. One nice thing about living a short life: it's gonn...
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The Union of Smokers by Paddy ScottInvisible Publishing, March 2020A tale of trauma, a "theme essay," told in the singular bantering voice of a white twelve-year-old boy, Kaspar Pine, who might be on his deathbed. One nice thing about living a short life: it's gonn...
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Some People's Children by Bridget Canning
Some People's Children by Bridget CanningBreakwater Books, May 2020A fatherless girl's coming of age story set in Newfoundland.Is this a novel primarily for teens or adults? The Scotiabank Giller prize rules disqualify YA (Young Adult) titles, so that question was one that I asked of my YA book g...
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Some People's Children by Bridget CanningBreakwater Books, May 2020A fatherless girl's coming of age story set in Newfoundland.Is this a novel primarily for teens or adults? The Scotiabank Giller prize rules disqualify YA (Young Adult) titles, so that question was one that I asked of my YA book g...
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma BrownPenguin Random House, December 2019Audiobook (10 hours) narrated by Jorjeana Marie and Mozhan MarnoReasons why I enjoyed this feminist dual-timeline novel with a cunning plot:- Two fascinating women in their respective timelines: contemporary and 1950s- For...
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma BrownPenguin Random House, December 2019Audiobook (10 hours) narrated by Jorjeana Marie and Mozhan MarnoReasons why I enjoyed this feminist dual-timeline novel with a cunning plot:- Two fascinating women in their respective timelines: contemporary and 1950s- For...
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Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
Ridgerunner by Gil AdamsonHouse of Anansi, May 2020A literary historical novel with the propulsion and atmosphere of a western.I loved Gil Adamson's Outlander (2007), in which a 19-year-old white woman, Mary Boulton, is on the run from the law across the 1903 Canadian West, so I was delighted to ...
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Ridgerunner by Gil AdamsonHouse of Anansi, May 2020A literary historical novel with the propulsion and atmosphere of a western.I loved Gil Adamson's Outlander (2007), in which a 19-year-old white woman, Mary Boulton, is on the run from the law across the 1903 Canadian West, so I was delighted to ...
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The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett
The Swan Suit: Stories by Katherine FawcettDouglas & McIntyre, March 2020A fresh and imaginative collection of short stories, bursting with humour and magic. Each story has surprises. 'The Virgin and the Troll' is a feminist retelling of Rumplestiltskin. A pig starts a wolf broth busines...
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The Swan Suit: Stories by Katherine FawcettDouglas & McIntyre, March 2020A fresh and imaginative collection of short stories, bursting with humour and magic. Each story has surprises. 'The Virgin and the Troll' is a feminist retelling of Rumplestiltskin. A pig starts a wolf broth busines...
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