Since we’re a big group of book lovers here at Cityline, we’re inviting our viewers to read along with us! For our last book club pick, we read Stacey May Fowles’ Infidelity (ECW Press) – did you read it, too? Be sure to watch the video of our book club meeting to see what we thought of the book, and to enter for your chance to win a book prize pack courtesy of ECW Press!
For our latest book pick, we’re reading one of the biggest books of the season, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press). Once again, we hope you’ll read along with us! Here’s a little about the book:
With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can’t seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day.
Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.
We’re so excited to start reading this award-winning short story collection, and we hope you’ll read along with us! Want a copy? We have 5 copies to give away to some lucky readers, courtesy House of Anansi Press! To enter for your chance to win, tell us about your last great read in the comments below!
Over the next six weeks, we’ll be sharing tons of great features about Hellgoing and Lynn Coady, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at our office discussion of the book! So go out and grab your copy, and get reading! We can’t wait to discuss with you!