{"id":7693,"date":"2012-09-04T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2016-07-28T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:23:56","slug":"2012-giller-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/09\/04\/2012-giller-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Giller Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the Giller Prize longlist was announced, and the Shadow Giller Jury is, once again, ready!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the books.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Y<\/em>, by Celona Marjorie<\/li>\n<li><em>Our Daily Bread<\/em>, by Lauren Davis<\/li>\n<li><em>My Life Among the Apes<\/em>, by Cary Fagan<\/li>\n<li><em>419<\/em>, Will Ferguson<\/li>\n<li><em>Dr. Brinkley&#8217;s Tower<\/em>, by Robert Hough<\/li>\n<li><em>One Good Hustle<\/em>, by Billie Livingston<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sweet Girl<\/em>, by Annabel Lyon<\/li>\n<li><em>Inside<\/em>, by Alix Ohlin<\/li>\n<li><em>Everybody Has Everything<\/em>, by Katrina Onstad<\/li>\n<li><em>The Emperor of Paris<\/em>, by CS Richardson<\/li>\n<li><em>The Imposter Bride<\/em>, by Nancy Richler<\/li>\n<li><em>Ru<\/em>, by Kim Th\u00fay<\/li>\n<li><em>Whirl Away<\/em>, by Russell Wangersky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The shortlist will be annoucned on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>There are 13 titles, in contrast to the 17 last year. I&#8217;m a bit sad that there are only &#8212; I think &#8212; two collections of short stories, <em>My Life Among the Apes<\/em> and <em>Whirl Away<\/em>. Still, I&#8217;m excited about the list which we on the Shadow Giller will be reviewing and discussion. I am excited to see Annabel Lyon on the longlist for <em>The Sweet Girl<\/em>, a kind of follow-up to <em>The Golden Mean<\/em>, which I placed second the\u00a0year it was a finalist for the Giller (my review of <em>The Golden Mean<\/em> here).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/09\/04\/2012-giller-prize-longlist\/shadow_giller_prize\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize.jpg?fit=506%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"506,155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shadow_Giller_Prize\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize.jpg?fit=506%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7694\" title=\"Shadow_Giller_Prize\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize-300x91.jpg?resize=300%2C91\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize.jpg?resize=300%2C91&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Shadow_Giller_Prize.jpg?w=506&amp;ssl=1 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with the Shadow Giller, let me point to the write up by KevinfromCanada, our chair, <a title=\"KFC: The Shadow Giller Jury Is Back!\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/26\/the-shadow-giller-jury-is-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0It\u2019s my fourth year, and\u00a0the process and the books have become a highlight of my reading year.\u00a0All four of us are back: Kevin, Alison Gzowski, and\u00a0Kimbofo (who blogs <a title=\"Reading Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/kimbofo.typepad.com\/readingmatters\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>at Reading Matters).<\/p>\n<p>Kevin will be keeping track of our reviews and has already posted his own reviews of three of the books. Also, check out his thoughts on the longlist <a title=\"KFC's thoughts on the longlist\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/04\/2012-giller-prize-longlist\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giller Prize Longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/09\/04\/2012-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-7693","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-205","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","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=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19530,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions\/19530"}],"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=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}