Governor General's Literary Awards 2010 Just Announced

The Governor General's Literary Awards 2010 have just been announced.  Here are the winners for English-Language Books:

Boxing the Compass - Richard Greene (Poetry)
Cats' Night Out - Jon Klassen (Children's Literature--Illustration)
Cool Water - Dianne Warren (Fiction)
Afterimage - Robert Chafe (Drama)
Forests - Linda Gaboriau (Translation--French to English)
Lakeland:  Journeys into Soul of Canada - Allan Case (Non-fiction)
Fishtailing - Wendy Phillips (Children's Literature--Text)

For further information go to


http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/2010/default.htm

Canada Reads Top 10 Books 2011

CBC Canada Reads has announced the Essential Top 10 Canadian Novels of the Decade.  Canadians selected the novels.  The ten titles " represent... richness and diversity...there are former Canada Reads contenders, an originally self-published novel, a graphic novel, some titles from big publishers and others from smaller presses. There's a humorous book and a heartbreaking one, and everything in between."

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall
Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Unless by Carol Shields

For further information on Canada Reads go to
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/2010/11/meet-your-canada-reads-top-10.html

Giller (Book) Prize Winner 2010

Johanna Skibsrud has been named the 2010 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists, published by Gaspereau Press.  For further information and a list of nominees go to

http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/

HSS Book Club Book Recommendations

The HSS Book Club met on Friday, November 5.  Members discussed books that they had read recently.
Some of the recommended books included

Deadline - Chris Crutcher
In the Garage -  Alma Fullerton
Tricks - Ellen Hopkins
Splinter Cell - Tom Clancy
Halo series - Lee Hammock
Fire Demons - FitzGerald McCurdy
The Second Trial - Rosemarie Boll
Annexed - Sharon Dogar
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

The club will be meeting again in X Block on Friday, November 19, 2010.