12 Nov 08 Congratulations to Joseph Boyden – winner of the 2008 ScotiaBank Giller Prize for Through Black Spruce
Despite being about 100 books behind on my reading list, I’m still quite interested in good books and so I have to congratulate Joseph Boyden for his work Through Black Spruce. He has Metis roots and, in a quote to CTV News, he spoke of the silver lining that surrounds the oft-reported sad reality of life in Aboriginal communities in Canada;
…We always hear about the diabetes and the suicide rates among Canada’s Native peoples. But there is such a beauty in them – and in the land. I wanted to get that across to people in this book…
I usually tend to gravitate towards more escapist reading (when it comes to fiction at least) to give my mind a break from the technical and business literature, but in this case it sounds like it’s worthwhile reading.
He gets $50,000 from ScotiaBank as part of the prize, but the true reward (business wise) is no doubt in the widespread exposure his books will now get.
If you’re looking to buy the book (in hardcover only for now) it’s US $17.79 on Amazon.com, $21.42 at both Amazon Canada and Chapters / Indigo.
A suggestion though: if you are a member of Costco Wholesale you may want to hold off purchasing until they get it in a Costco warehouse store – while Costco has very limited numbers of books they generally offer huge discounts (often cheaper than both Amazon and Chapters / Indigo) off the cover price of new books.
Tags: Books, Giller Prize, Joseph Boyden, Shopping, Through Black Spruce
10 Oct 08 Bedtime: no ‘net, no laptop(s), smartphones, touchphones – a real paper book
What a concept, eh?
Off to continue reading Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins…
Tags: Anthony Robbins, Books, personal improvement, Self-improvement, Tony Robbins
06 Oct 08 Dalton Fury Book : Kill Bin Laden : A Delta Force Commanders Account of the Hunt for the Worlds Most Wanted Man
Yesterday I wrote about Scott Pelley of CBS 60 Minutes doing a pretty fascinating interview with “Dalton Fury” a Delta Force commander who lead a team of 40-50 elite Delta Force commandos to attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden shortly after the September 11 attacks.
Of course, the interview was partially in support of the new book Kill Bin Laden : A Delta Force Commanders Account of the Hunt for the Worlds Most Wanted Man which was released today… it seems like it would be an interesting read.
All those sites also have the book in other formats (such as Audio CDs, etc.)
Tags: Books, Dalton Fury, Delta Force, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, War
05 Oct 08 CBS 60 Minutes report on Delta Force mission lead by “Dalton Fury” against Osama Bin Laden… pre-empted at 8:00pm by the Amazing Race!
Talk about annoying.
I was just watching a pretty fascinating story on 60 minutes with the commander of the Delta Force unit (about 50 top commandos) sent into the hills of Afghanistan via Tora Bora to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden. They had heavily disguised the Delta Force commander, who has just written a book about the mission under the pseudonym Dalton Fury, and had first time video of the mission, which was to approach the 14,000 foot summits in the Afghan mountains where Bin Laden was suspected to be holed up.
Previous strategies to approach by surprise from the top side of the 14K mountains and another one to litter the path through the mountains with air-dropped landmines by unknown sources higher up, either in Central Command or even higher (i.e. POTUS)…
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Tags: Books, Dalton Fury, Delta Force, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, Television, War
26 Apr 08 Chapters Indigo Deal of the Week – Angels of Death: Inside The Bikers’ Global Crime Empire – $6.99 in hardcover !
Well, this is a smoking deal that is online only and expires May 1st.
Angels of Death: Inside The Bikers’ Global Crime Empire by William Marsden is at Chapters.Indigo.ca for just $6.99 in hardcover – that’s 80% off the regular price and it’s $0.35 cheaper if you’re an Irewards member!
As a reference, here are the current prices at some other online stores for this book:
Amazon.com: $17.79
Amazon.ca: $22.02
Buy.com: $18.27
