{"id":4451,"date":"2010-09-20T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2016-06-19T01:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T05:02:50","slug":"2010-giller-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/09\/20\/2010-giller-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Giller Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the 2010 Giller Prize longlist was announced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Bergen: <em>The Matter with Morris<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Douglas Coupland: <em>Player One<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Michael Helm: <em>Cities of Refuge<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alexander MacLeod: <em>Light Lifting<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Avner Mandelman: <em>The Debba<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tom Rachman: <em>The Imperfectionists<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sarah Selecky: <em>This Cake Is for the Party<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Johanna Skibsrud: <em>The Sentimentalist<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cordelia Strube: <em>Lemon<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Joan Thomas: <em>Curiosity<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jane Urquhart: <em>Sanctuary Line<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dianne Warren: <em>Cool Water<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Winter: <em>Annabel<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember, I am part of the Shadow Jury, explained here on KevinfromCanada&#8217;s blog. The only book I&#8217;ve read so far is the very enjoyable <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of The Imperfectionists\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/07\/30\/tom-rachman-the-imperfectionists\/\" target=\"_self\">The Imperfectionists<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0You can read reviews of <a title=\"KFC's Review of The Imperfectionists\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/19\/the-imperfectionists-by-tom-rachman\/\" target=\"_blank\">it<\/a>, <em><a title=\"KFC's Review of Cities of Refuge\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/09\/cities-of-refuge-by-michael-helm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cities of Refuge<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a title=\"KFC's Review of Annabel\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/26\/annabel-by-kathleen-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annabel<\/a><\/em> on\u00a0KFC&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a couple of titles available in the United States: <em>The Imperfectionists<\/em> and <em>The Debba<\/em>. That being the case, and since the shortlist is going to be announced in only a couple of weeks, I don&#8217;t know how many of the others I will get to, though I will be reading the entire shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad that I don&#8217;t have to read Emma Donoghue&#8217;s <em>Room<\/em>. I just had no interest, despite its positive reviews and inclusion on the Booker shortlist. I am sad, though, that I won&#8217;t be quickly reading some of the other eligible titles KFC has been reading through the year. <em><a title=\"KFC's Review of Ghosted\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/30\/ghosted-by-shaughnessy-bishop-stall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghosted<\/a><\/em> and <em><a title=\"KFC's Review of Far to Go\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/09\/far-to-go-by-alison-pick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Far to Go<\/a><\/em> look particularly good.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to remind everyone how much I enjoyed reading for the Giller Shadow Jury last year. I didn&#8217;t like all of the books, but I loved the process and the exposure to books I normally would have skipped. Each book was interesting, and it showed me how strong Canadian fiction is. I expect many surprises this year as well. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Giller Prize longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/09\/20\/2010-giller-prize-longlist\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Giller-Logo.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-19N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18775,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/18775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}