Canada Reads 2012: The Final Five
Annotation:Defended by Alan Thicke. This 1983 insider's look at Canada's favourite sport is still held up as one of the defining books about hockey. Ken Dryden, a former goalie, chronicles his 1979 season with the Montreal Canadiens in this Canadian classic. 4th (last) book voted off (Thursday Feb. 9).
Annotation:Defended by: Stacey McKenzie. Former Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini made his transition to the writing world when this book, his first, was published in 1998. It's an account of the life of a touring Canadian musician. Bidini kept a diary while on tour with The Tragically Hip in 1996 (the Rheostatics were their opening act), and On a Cold Road is a mix of Bidini's own touring experiences and anecdotes from other Canadian musicians. 3rd book voted off (Wednesday Feb. 8).
Annotation:Defended by: Arlene Dickinson. As a teenager, Marina Nemat was arrested and spent two years in a political prison in Iran after the Islamic revolution. This book is her memoir of those horrifying years in jail, where she was tortured and almost executed. First book voted off (Monday Feb. 6).
Annotation:Defended by: Shad. Carmen Aguirre's life was more eventful before she hit puberty than most people's lives ever get. Her family fled to Vancouver from Pinochet's regime in Chile when she was five, and only six years later, her mother moved Aguirre and her sister back to South America to join the resistance. WINNER!
Annotation:Defended by: Anne-France Goldwater. A man-eating tiger is on the prowl in Russia. John Vaillant's nature thriller has the myth and mystery of a spooky fairy tale, but this account of a Siberian tiger terrorizing the residents of a remote Russian village is no fiction. Primorye (also known as the Maritime Territory) is a sparsely populated region of Russia that borders on China, and a locale where illegal tiger poaching and trading is a common source of income. 2nd book voted off (Tuesday Feb. 7).
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CBC held a public campaign to find out which memoirs, biographies and literary non-fiction titles Canadians want to see on Canada Reads 2012: True Stories. Canadians took up this challenge and nominated books for the Canada Reads: True Stories Top 40. Then further votes happened, resulting in a Top 10. A final five were debated the week of February 6-10, 2012.
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