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Readers have spoken! Through an on-line public vote in May, Joan Thomas' Reading by Lightning has been selected as the 2009-10 book for On the Same Page. This community reading project is designed to encourage all Manitobans to read, and talk about, the same book at the same time.
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Reading by Lightning, by Joan Thomas
Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, Reading by Lightning, captures the moods and conflicts of urban England and a God-fearing Canadian prairie town during the tempestuous years leading up to the Second World War. The novel observes the emergence of a personality in the face of intruding ideologies. With prose that is elegant and wry, devastatingly funny and confident, Joan Thomas tells us something about how we make sense of the future when the future is something we can hardly imagine. Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best First Book in the Canada and Caribbean Region.
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History
In October, 2008, The Winnipeg Foundation launched On The Same Page, featuring the novel In Search of April Raintree by Winnipeg author Beatrice Mosionier. The novel, first published 25 years ago, chronicles the lives of two Métis sisters navigating the foster care system in Winnipeg.
Through multi-media promotions, dozens of author readings and extensive free book distribution, On The Same Page engaged thousands of Manitobans in its first year.
The Literacy for Life Fund supports family literacy programming across Manitoba. Gifts to the fund are permanently endowed and the income generated supports inter-generational literacy projects at community organizations and library branches throughout the province.
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News
Reading By Lightning has been longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Congratulations Joan!
November’s Reader’s Tally winner is: Marjorie Page, Brandon MB.
Special thanks to Portage and Main Press, who donated November’s prize of last year’s choice for OTSP, In Search of April Raintree, 25th Anniversary Edition, by Beatrice Mosionier, as well as Mosionier’s new, long-awaited memoir Come Walk With Me.
Watch for announcements of book give-aways for Family Literacy Day, January 27, and during "I Love to Read Month" in February.
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Karen San Filippo, On the Same Page Project Coordinator
Phone: 204.391.2703
email: coordinator@onthesamepage.ca
For 2009-10, Winnipeg Public Library is overseeing coordination of On The Same Page.
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