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Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 26, 2012 at 5:28pm

I don't like Len Deighton's first book, Horse Under Water. Sorry I spent the money for it on Kobo. His City of Gold was a great read, but Horse Under Water is so full of long drawn out descriptions and comparisons that don't make a lot of sense, that it is boring me. Some one should have done a good editing job on it for him.

Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 26, 2012 at 3:28pm

Started reading Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints. I believe it is his first book. I've read about 5 chapters so far and find it interesting, about a small Italian village in the Appenines.

Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 21, 2012 at 11:17am

Canadian Authors Association
May 21, 2012                                                                 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2012 Literary Awards Shortlist Announced by Canadian Authors
 
May 21, 2012 - The shortlist for the Canadian Authors Association's 2012 Literary Awards was announced last night at the association's CanWrite! conference in Orillia, Ontario.
 
The shortlist is as follows:
 
CAA Award for Fiction
 
Patrick deWitt, Portland, Oregon, for The Sisters Brothers, published by House of Anansi Press
 
Helen Humphreys, Kingston, Ontario, for The Reinvention of Love, published by HarperCollins Canada
 
Miriam Toews, Toronto, Ontario for Irma Voth, published by Alfred A. Knopf
 
Lela Common Award for Canadian History
 
Douglas Gibson, Toronto, Ontario, for Stories About Storytellers, published by ECW Press
 
Richard Gwyn, Toronto, Ontario, for Nation Maker - Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, published by Random House Canada
 
Jonathan F. Vance, London, Ontario, for Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars, by Oxford University Press
 
Award for Poetry
 
E.D. Blodgett,Surrey, British Columbia, for Apostrophes VII: Sleep' You' a Tree, published by University of Alberta Press
 
Brian Henderson,Kitchener, Ontario, for Sharawadji, published by Brick Books
 
Goran Simić, Edmonton, Alberta, for Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, published by Biblioasis
 
The winners of all three genres will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards dinner on Saturday, July 28, 2012, during the Leacock Summer Festival at the Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia, Ontario. The shortlisted authors will be invited to read from their works during the Festival as well.
 
Introduced in 1975, the CAA Literary Awards continue the association's long tradition of honouring Canadian writers who achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal. The above nine finalists were selected from nearly 300 nominations.
 
Founded by Stephen Leacock and several other prominent Canadian writers in 1921, the Canadian Authors Association has continued to carry out its goal of "writers helping writers" since its inception. Some 25,000 writers have been members of the CAA in its 91-year history, including Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, and Robert W. Service.
 
Information about the CAA Literary Awards and this year's shortlisted authors is available at www.canauthors.org/awards.
 
 
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Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 20, 2012 at 7:08pm

I have no interest in watching or reading about The Hunger Games. Sounds like a vile story.

I'm submitting an application to the library to volunteer as an assitant to help kids learning to read.

Comment by June Louise Roy on May 20, 2012 at 5:30pm

My husband read the Hunger Games first..all three books in the KOBO trilogy, and he told me to hurry up and read them so we could discuss them together..then we went and saw the movie. We thought it was terrific..so to each their own. I am lending my KOBO to my daughter so she can read them next.

 

Comment by Annette Tilden on May 20, 2012 at 4:34pm

Irene, I am glad to find a kindred soul.  I saw the movie "The Hunger Games" and disliked it immensely.  Until then I was interested in reading the book, but now I will give it a wide berth.

Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 20, 2012 at 2:08pm

From Wooden Horse: The amputations apparently haven’t yet saved the patient.
 
Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) announced this week it will offer its bondholders a take-it-or-leave-it buy-out, but at a 5% discount.  The payout will be funded by proceeds from RDA’s sale of Allrecipes.com earlier this year, which brought in $175 million.  Bondholders of these senior secured notes have until June 14 to decide whether to accept the deal and take a “haircut” on their investments.
 
Despite recently selling both Allrecipes.com and EVERY DAY WITH RACHAEL RAY* to Meredith, the company still is hemorrhaging cash, losing nearly $57 million in the first quarter of this year.  Revenue for Q1 fell by almost 15%.
 
Somehow they continue to blame, in part, the weak performance of Every Day with Rachael Ray (how long can you ride that horse?), declining renewal rates at North American operations (what publisher doesn’t have that problem?) and soft international business.
 
The truth is that RDA has been in a constant state of financial upheaval since going private in 2007, going through a managed bankruptcy in 2009, and has never recovered.  Now the company is looking at unloading its lifestyle and entertainment direct business, and selling off some international properties.
 
If RDA prunes down to its core North American publishing business, what then?  How much can you cut before there’s not much left to save?

Comment by MarilynLou Fraser on May 20, 2012 at 1:30pm

Finished reading Len Dieghton's City of Gold and found it interesting, so I bought his first book, Horse Under Water, on Kobo. Not such a good book. His descriptions are kind of over the top and his comparisons re weather, city or whatever are a real stretch. He should rewrite it better. It is about WWII in the UK and a sunken U-Boat, I think.

Comment by Irene Hodgson on May 20, 2012 at 8:48am

The Hunger Games has to be the nastiest piece of literature I've read since Hunting Humans. A great read f or young people - NOT!

Comment by Dennis Moeller on May 19, 2012 at 10:03pm

I suggest you read Mary E. Martins   trilogy .....about Harry..The Osgood Trilogy....First book..Conduct in Question,,,then..the Final Parodox,,and the Trial of one.. A Canadian Author from Toronto..Lots of sex and violence and mystery,,written in the Noir  mode.i hated for it to end...

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