The Giller Prize

I have been looking for a few good books to read. Even just one. So anyways, here is how it goes. I am up early this morning with my coffee in hand and the globe and mail in the other. Reading thru the arts pages I notice the short-list for the Giller Prize in the Books section. The Giller is worth a lot of money and goes to Canada's best novel of that year. I don't know If life of Pi won or not in its day...but Yann Martel had another terrific book about a writer and a taxidermist and it has failed to make the Top 10 if great Canadian fiction of this year. That was a fantastic book so I say to myself "Great" here it is, five Novels by Canadian writers. All the best fiction of 2010 that our country has to offer. One book you can even get in stores its on back order and the other four aren't any I have read more than 10 pages For now I will list the novels, there are: Two books of short-stories; one by Alexander Macleod (Son of great Alistair McCleoud) with his debut title "Light Lifting" and Sarah Selecky with her book "The Cake is for the Party". Both are books of short stories.The novelists include Kathleen Winter's book "Annabel" she is published by Anansi Press who also publishes Michael Winter who happens to be one of my favourite writers, I am not sure if theses two are related. Either way, there is also two other writers who maade the short list. Probably the two that I will find the most fascinating from their descriptions are David Bergen's "The Matter with Morris" said to be about a journalist who loses his son in Afghanistan to a friendly fire accident. The writer has trouble, etc.. further and lastly a novel "The Sentimentalist" a debut by Johana Skibsrud. Also dealing with war on some level. All 4 books you can get in chapters or other local book stores but The Sentimentalist is currently unavailable but you can be put on an order list and as soon as Gaspereau press has all the material they are going to print a 2nd press of the the book.'Gaspereau' press is a small press in Nova Scotia, it has only printed off 2,000 copies and the owner says, they are currently waiting on a paper delivery to continue with the second print. So I the mean time I think I will begin reading "The Matter with Morris" and I you are finished and feel like commenting and adding our favourite read of 2010 the by all means share... Until then continue to read the blog for other news and stories