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After Canada Reads Part 2 – The Conclusion
Here’s Part 2 and the exciting conclusion of After Canada Reads! Tania’s Liesl from Fifth Business and Rianne’s Nao from A Tale For The Time Being were eliminated in Part 1. Who will be the last character standing? Jason’s Murasaki … Continue reading
Posted in CanLitNews, Opinions, Podcast, Uncategorized
Tagged A Tale For the Time Being, Anakana Schofield, Best Female Character in Canadian Literature, book debate, Canada Reads, Canadian literature, Chorus of Mushrooms, Fifth Business, Hiromi Goto, Katherena Vermette, Malarky, Robertson Davies, ruth ozeki, The Break
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After Canada Reads Part 1
The day is finally here! Part 1 of After Canada Reads is up and ready for your ears! What titles made it through the first and second rounds of debate and voting? What titles were eliminated? Stop asking all of … Continue reading
Posted in CanLitNews, Opinions, Podcast, Uncategorized
Tagged A Tale For the Time Being, Anakana Schofield, Best Female Character in Canadian Literature, book debate, Canada Reads, Canadian literature, Chorus of Mushrooms, Fifth Business, Hiromi Goto, Katherena Vermette, Malarky, Robertson Davies, ruth ozeki, The Break
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Write Reads #46 The Year In Review
Hello, Dear Friends! Our deepest apologies to those of you who were expecting a podcast about Experimental Film. Sadly, it proved too difficult to obtain in our city of champions. If you were able to get your hands on a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, CanLitNews, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged A Profession of Hope, book club, Canada Reads, Canadian literature, Gilmore Girls, podcast, The Back of the Turtle, The Best Kind of People, The Horseman's Graves, The Imperfectionists, The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, The Outlander, The Party Wall, Top Five of 2016, Year In Review
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Write Reads #45 The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
Welcome to the 45th Write Reads podcast! As all of our ardent fans know, November is now Write Reading in Bed Month. Laura from Reading in Bed once again joins us to discuss Zoe Whittall’s Giller nominated novel. As per … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Book Picks, CanLitNews, Kirt, Opinions, Podcast, Tania, Uncategorized
Tagged book club, Canada Reads, Canadian literature, epl makerspace, experimental film, gemma files, Giller Prize 2016, Laura Frey, podcast, Rape Culture, Reading in Bed, shadow giller, The Best Kind of People, The Party Wall, Zoe Whittall
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Fact or fiction? Canada Reads 2015
Tania’s Take on the Canada Reads 2015 Panelists – do you agree?: Martha – the poet. It’s tough to match the language of her passionate defense. Lainey – the activist. Sorry, Craig. Lainey is coming out as the stronger activist … Continue reading
Posted in Book Picks, CanLitNews, Opinions, Tania
Tagged Amber Dawn, Cameron Bailey, Canada Reads, CBC, How Poetry Saved My Life, Lainey, Martha Wainwright
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Write Reads #25 The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Hot on the heels of gaining a bunch of new listeners, Tania and Kirt tread in tricky territory in this one. The Orenda is probably one of the “biggest” books we’ve tackled. Do we bring anything new to the table? … Continue reading
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Tagged And the Birds Rained Down, book bloggers, book podcasts, booktube, Canada Reads, Canadian historical fiction, Canadian history, Guy Gavriel Kay, historical accuracy, Jason Purcell, Jocelyne Saucier, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Joseph Boyden, Marisha Pessl, Michael Hingston, More Than This, native stereotypes, Niccolo Machiavelli, Patrick Ness, Scott McCloud, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Susanna Clarke, The Dilettantes, The Edmonton Journal, The Heavy Blanks, The Inconvenient Indian, The Orenda, The Prince, The Sculptor, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Thomas King, Tigana, violence, vloggers, Yukio Mishima
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Canada? Is That You?
As usual, Tania and I are in complete agreement about Canada Reads’ quest to find a book that will change Canada. The notion that there is a book that can do this is overly optimistic (to put it politely). But … Continue reading
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