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Personal goal: Purchase a copy of all the winning books from Canada Reads since the first one. (In The Skin Of A Lion by Michael Ondaatje)
Lofty Personal Goal: Purchase a copy of each with “Winner Canada Reads�� on the cover.
Loftier Personal Goal: Get each copy signed by the author.
Insanely crazy personal goal: Get each copied signed in person by the author.
Silly personal goal: Get each copy signed by the person who defended each book.

2002: In The Skin Of A Lion by Michael Ondaatje (Steven Page)
2003: Next Episode by Hubert Aquin (Denise Bombardier)
2004: The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe (Jim Cuddy)
2005: Rockbound by Frank Parker Day (Donna Morrissey)
2006: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (John K. Samson)
2007: Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (John K. Samson)
2008: King Leary by Paul Quarrington (Dave Bidin)
2009: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (Avi Lewis)
2010: Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner (Michel Vézina)
2011: The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis (Ali Velshi)
2012: Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre (Shad)
2013: February by Lisa Moore (Trent McClellan)
2014: The Orenda by Joseph Boyden (Wab Kinew)
2015: Ru by Kim Thúy (Cameron Bailey)
2016: The Illegal by Lawrence Hill (Clara Hughes)
2017: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Humble The Poet)
2018: Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto (Jeanne Beker)
2019: By Chance Alone by Max Eisen (Ziya Tong)
2020: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (Amanda Brugel)
2021: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Devery Jacobs)
2022: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (Christian Allaire)

Are you going to read them, too? ;) There isn't a bad book among them. Indeed, as a CR devotee, I cannot think of any bad books having been in the competition.

I hope you reach all your goals, James: it will result in a beautiful collection!

Hi Tommy, I have all but the recent book 2023 Winner Ducks. It is on order. Also I have purchased some round stickers and will hopefully find a way to create some stickers to update the covers. Sadly I have not had any signed yet.

As for reading, I am just starting Jonny Appleseed. So far I have enjoyed the books. I have not found any to be bad or unreadable. And I have actually learned a lot of Canadian History.

Friday evening we went to see the play based upon Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto, adapted by Hiro Kanagawa. It is a fantastic play and captures the story very well.

Thank you for writing and happy reading

Johnny Appleseed constantly referred to places I'd been, which was odd to find in a book.

Happy reading to you, too James.

Hello

The book I authored, WHISTLEBLOWER: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. A true-crime non-fiction record whose release/Launch untimely coincided with the lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020.

This is a soft re-launch of the book, and I want to invite everyone to take a read. I have chosen to keep the ebook free-of-charge until the end of the year. Everyone should be free to share the ebook to friends, Family and if you have colleagues in the press/media or independent bloggers.

Should you decide to own a hard copy, you should know all proceeds from the book will be directed to advance the cause of Independent Media, Truth, Justice and Free Speech.

I will be grateful if you can leave a review on Amazon.

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Hi Tommy

I am officially complete up to this year’s winner. Now to pick a filler book till March