book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize

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  • Scully
    Scully

    http://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/

    Can't wait to read this book, by a Canadian author.

  • Scully
    Scully

    http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/09/the-2014-scotiabank-giller-prize-longlist-announced-in-moyse-hall/

    The top prize is $100,000 and the finalists will each receive $10,000.

    The long list for the prize includes the following 12 titles:

    The twelve books longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize are:

    Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (ECW Press)

    The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada)

    American Innovations by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins Canada)

    Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada)

    Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove (ECW Press)

    Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada)

    Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo (Doubleday Canada)

    The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada)

    Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page (Biblioasis)

    My October by Claire Holden Rothman (Penguin Canada)

    All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)

    The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)

    The shortlist will be announced on Monday, Oct. 6, and the winner will be revealed at a gala ceremony to honour the finalists on Monday, Nov. 9.

  • a watcher
    a watcher

    Boring trailer.

  • Scully
    Scully

    Well, a watcher, do let us know when your novel is nominated for a prestigious award, so we can critique the trailer for it.

  • GrreatTeacher
    GrreatTeacher

    I remember that song from the purple songbook.

    "Let's watch how we walk and watch how we talk."

    And I think the next part was, "That thus we may be alert and wise, buying out the opportune time since this world in Satan lies."

    But I may have mixed them up.

    Crazy what I remember from all of those years ago...

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, Scully:

    The trailer is visually and aurally stunning; the text may be enigmatic, yet it has served to whet my appetite.

    I WANT MORE!

    How's that for a descriptive blurb?

    CoCo

  • Scully
  • Frazzled UBM
    Frazzled UBM

    A watcher - using your usual troll tactics I see

  • GreenhornChristian
    GreenhornChristian

    Dang now I have that song rattling in my head.

  • GreenhornChristian
    GreenhornChristian

    Very cool!

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