Happy Canada Day, kids! I love it when it falls on a Friday and we get an extra long weekend in the summer. I mentioned yesterday how I’d like to get more social in regards to books and reading – normally such a solitary activity – so I’m going to try a new series I’m calling Shelf […]
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I’m a voracious reader, and I love sharing what I’ve read, as you may have noticed. So, I’m already on LibraryThing (plutopsyche), which is a neat site for cataloguing books, and finding out who’s got what. They’ve got an Early Reviewers program, where they give away review copies of thousands of books each month. I haven’t tried
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Go the Fuck to Sleep, written by Adam Mansbach, began life as a random comment on Facebook. Friends encouraged Mansbach to write it, and he began with a few verses. The illustrations were completed by a friend, Ricardo Cortes, and they found a publisher, Akashic Books, and it shortly went viral, reaching number 1 on Amazon.com a
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A number of sites have round ups of “creative” bookshelves, which win points for novelty, but fail miserably when it comes to practicality. While the Mario shelves above win points for geekiness, I can only hope they’re used for storing toys and not books. All that block breaking can’t be good for them. For more examples see
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The Red River Review has published my poem “Au Natural” in their May 2011 issue.
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Take your mind off the horrifying prospect of four years under Harper’s leadership with a Conservative majority with books. Lots of books. Perhaps even a few short story collections? 2011 has been declared the Year of the Short Story, and May as Short Story Month. You know what this means, right? Yup. Another links round up: It’s
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