Manitoba Reads - The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:04pm
Just a reminder to vote for one of the twelve finalists for this year's Manitoba Reads at CBC's Manitoba Reads page. Here's one of your options:
Met with international acclaim when published in 1901, The Man from Glengarry is a tale of courage and an exciting portrait of life in 19th-century Canada. Ranald Macdonald's roots are in the forest of Ontario's easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber business, he brings pride to the minister's wife who was the model for his life.
Charles William Gordon was an ordained Presbyterian minister who moved to Winnipeg in 1894 after serving a stint as missionary to the lumber camps and mining villages around Banff. Writing under the pen-name Ralph Connor, his three novels sold more than five million copies. The Ralph Connor House on East Gate is maintained as a museum.
Categories: buzz, Winnipeg, LiteratureManitoba Reads - Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:00pm
Remember to vote for one of the twelve finalists for this year's Manitoba Reads at CBC's Manitoba Reads page. Here's one of your options:
Shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Miriam Toews' debut novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck, tracks Lucy Van Alstyne - aka Single Mother on the Dole - and her flamboyant friend Lish, mother of four, as they navigate the humiliations and hilarity of life with too little money and the boundless chaos of young children. When they all take off in a van held together with coat-hangers and electrical tape and crammed to the hilt with kids and toys, it dawns on Lucy that this may be the summer of her amazing luck.
Miriam Toews is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. She has won the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and been nominated for the Giller Prize. She lives now in Toronto. Categories: buzz, WinnipegManitoba Reads - A Stone Watermelon, by Lois Braun
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57am
Just a reminder to vote for one of the twelve finalists for this year's Manitoba Reads at CBC's Manitoba Reads page. Here's one of your options:
Nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award, A Stone Watermelon is a collection of unsentimental, passionate stories of modern life in rural Manitoba. Retired farmers cruise and booze around the countryside, a farm wife contemplates an affair with the hired hand, a crop duster opens the No Place Bar and Grill - these beautifully-crafted portraits of rural people and places are tough and tender, delicate and direct.
Lois Braun's stories have been nominated for numerous literary prizes, including the Governor General's Award, the Journey Prize, and the Manitoba Book of the Year Award. She was born on a grain farm in southern Manitoba and lives in Altona.
Categories: buzz, WinnipegManitoba Reads - Twelve Drummers Drumming, by CC Benison
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:52am
Remember to vote for one of the twelve finalists for this year's Manitoba Reads at CBC's Manitoba Reads page. Here's one of your options:
The Reverend Tom "Father" Christmas has escaped city violence and the crushing loss of his wife, and become the newest vicar of Thornford Regis, an idyllic rural community where life is safe and predictable. Tom turns detective when one of his parishioners turns up dead in a drum at the town fair, and soon learns that everyone in Thornford Regis has a secret to hide - infidelity, theft, even past murders. Twelve Drummers Drumming, nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award, showcases a lovely place to live and/or die, and marks the debut of a mystery series featuring the brilliant Father Christmas.
Winnipegger Doug Whiteway, who publishes under the pen name CC Benison, has worked as a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines, and is an award-winning mystery writer.
Categories: buzz, WinnipegA Battle of the Books! - Manitoba Reads 2012
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:35am
McNally Robinson Booksellers, in partnership with CBC Manitoba and the Winnipeg International Writers' Festival, are proud to present Manitoba Reads, a friendly competition that asks you, the reader, to help choose a book for all of us to read.
A long list of 12 Manitoba authored books has been established, which you can vote on from now until August 12. The four books that receive the most votes will then be debated by a panel of literary pros in front of a live audience on Friday, September 21 as part of the launch for Thin Air 2012. After the debate, voting will re-open for the remaining four books, with the winning title being announced on the Weekend Morning Show on Sunday, September 23
For more information and to cast your vote, please visit CBC's Manitoba Reads page.
Categories: buzz, Winnipeg| < Newer - 1 ... 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ... 54 - Earlier > |
