Canada Reads 2008

• Zaib Shaikh, who plays the imam on Little Mosque on the Prairie, defending Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley.
• Hip-hop poet and broadcaster Jemeni defending Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.
• Astronaut Steve MacLean defending Icefields by Thomas Wharton.
• Newfoundland author Lisa Moore defending From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant.
• Musician and writer Dave Bidini, a founding member of the Rheostatics, defending King Leary by Paul Quarrington.

Well, I still have not read the Canadian Reads from this year, and here they are setting up for next year. I own Not Wanted on the Voyage, and I even started it once but I lost it. It was like a year later before I found it again, so I really should finish that one up. Brown Girl in the Ring I had never heard of before, I see it came out in November, so maybe I will have to see if the bookstore has it. I have read Icefields, though. I really liked that book. I am glad to see someone appreciating Thomas Wharton. As to the other two, they are both authors I have always wanted to read, but they are both not in print, so I hope they get republished for the contest.