Canada Reads – the books have been chosen

Jian Ghomeshi hosts the week long Canada Reads event which runs next year from February 25th to February 29th, 2008. Five celebrity panelists choose their favorite Canadian work of fiction. The celebrity panelists will debate why their chosen book should be the book for Canadians to read. The five panelists are Dave Bidini, Jemeni, Steve [...]

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Governor General’s Literary Awards Announced

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the names of the winners of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Awards. The winners in the English category are as follows:
Fiction – Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry – All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski
Drama – The December Man by Colleen Murphy
Non-fiction – I’ve Got a Home in Glory [...]

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A Few Guidelines for Blogging

Here’s a bit of information for those of you who are new to blogs:
Entries on the blog are called postings and are entered by the owner of the blog (in this case, Hinton Municipal Library). Entries by other people (that would be you) are called comments. If at any time you want to join the [...]

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Giller Prize winner “Late nights on air” by E. Hay

Having read 4 out of 5 of the 2007 Giller nominees, I agreed with the decision to award the prize to Elizabeth Hay’s “Late nights on air”.  For me, this novel hit home having lived in the north during the exact year that the novel is set & remembering how prevalent the Berger Inquiry was [...]

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls spent many years trying to hide from her childhood experiences. Walls is currently a contributor on MSNBC online and writes about growing up in a dysfunctional family. She recounts numerous episodes of her siblings and herself enduring hunger, poverty and bullying. Her candid account about growing up with a self-indulgent mother, unwilling to [...]

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