This Saturday marks the beginning of a series of Saturdays devoted to Shelf-Discovery reads, or Shelf-Discovery-inspired reads. I joined the actual Challenge late, else there would have been more Saturdays filled with nostalgic re-reading of kidlit heretofore. But better re-read later than never to have read at all. This Saturday
First of all, I'm not disappointed in the way that Canada Reads 2010 turned out: I thought Nicolas Dickner's Nikolski was terrific and, as much as I loved both The Jade Peony and Good to a Fault, I am glad to see that such a unique story which really does
The question that leaps out of today's discussion is, for me, whether reading a book should be challenging? And I think that's directly connected to this question: what kind of book is most likely to polarize readers? I think it *is* the challenging books that polarize readers. As one panelist
One of the issues considered in today's show is: how important is a strong sense of place and time for a book to engage a reader with a story. It is important, isn't it. So important that, just with reading that sentence, at least one book, more likely several, came
Inspired by today's Canada Reads debates, I find myself wondering: is it kinda disappointing when a book that has already been recognized internationally by readers and prize committees receives yet another award, and, if so, should the judges take every opportunity to look for another deserving title because those old
