What is Canada Reads?
Started in 2001, Canada Reads is CBC's annual battle of the books, where five Canadian personalities select the book they think Canadians should read. Each personality selects a book to defend and the books are eliminated one by one until a winner is declared. The debates air on CBC Radio One. Jian Ghomeshi has hosted Canada Reads since 2008.
excerpt form here
here for more info : nominees list
 | The Best Laid Plans By Terry Fallis Defended by Ali Velshi |
 | The Birth House By Ami McKay Defended by Debbie Travis |
 | The Bone Cage By Angie Abdou Defended by Georges Laraque |
 | Essex County By Jeff Lemire Defended by Sara Quin |
 | Unless By Carol Shields Defended by Lorne Cardinal |
For me this is a very unique competition, where it call celebrities to champion books and debating it among them but public can also talk and give out opinion. Thus promote reading to the public, mostly this reason focus on youth. I'm certainly not a Canadian, but here I am now talking and blogging about books, which something I would never thought of doing.
I maybe wrong but, the books listed in this competition is only books written by Canadian authors.
more on Canada Reads 2011 here.
A tout à l'heure ! (copied)
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