Canada Reads: Day 5

Yesterday on Canada Reads, we went from a touchy feely discussion of the modern family to Michel Vézina criticizing the reading skills of his fellow panelists. Today we start with Jian saying the Canada Reads books “sell like tickets to a Justin Bieber concert” (which may or may not have elicited a national cringe). Before [...]

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Canada Reads: Day 4

Yesterday, in a fairly tame episode, we saw GenX pack its bags and head back to Palm Springs and a more hospitable climate, the panelists debate what makes a Canadian novel, and a discussion of poverty and class. Today we start out with the usual assertion of self-importance (CR title = lots of book sales, [...]

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Canada Reads: Day 3

In yesterday‘s Canada Reads debate, the panelists discussed character and inventive writing, but hackles raised when it was time to weigh in on the popularity factor. The day ended with the first elimination vote, with the voting music sounding an awful lot like GenX‘s funeral dirge. And so the mobs gather for Day 3, and [...]

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