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Goodreads Mini-Review: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Canadiana Reading Challenge 2010

Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Although not my favourite book in this series, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour was a pretty solid conclusion and was fairly emotionally satisfying. For me, the most interesting part of this series is the characters and the pop culture/Toronto references. A good chunk of [...]

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OH EM GLEE, I’m writing a book!

January 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books

Disclaimer: This post is about books and about writing. But not about ones that I’m reading. It’ll all make sense in a moment, don’t you worry.
I am extremely excited to announce that I am going to be co-writing a companion guide book to Glee along with fellow gleek Erin Balser for the fabulous Toronto-based ECW [...]

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Interview with CBC Books about the Books, Etc. Book Club

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Today on the CBC Books site, blogger Julie Wilson (@BookMadam) interviews me about my book club, Books, Etc. Julie asked some great questions about our club and I had tons of fun answering them. I love hearing about other book clubs and why people join them, so I really enjoyed sharing my own insight on [...]

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Lemon by Cordelia Strube

January 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books, Canadiana Reading Challenge 2010, Reviews

Lemon is the kind of book that punches you in the gut and rips your heart out simultaneously. In a good way. Yes, that is possible.
I didn’t really know what to expect when I started reading Lemon, my first foray into Cordelia Strube’s oeuvre, even though Lemon is her eighth novel. The plot seemed like [...]

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What’s the “Word” this weekend?

September 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Magazines

This Sunday, my favourite festival rolls out across the nation, as The Word On The Street festival takes place in Vancouver, Halifax, Kitchener, and, thankfully, Toronto. I volunteered at WOTS in Toronto last year and am thrilled to be helping out again this year. A day-long event celebrating Canadian books and magazines? Clearly, the perfect [...]

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The good, the bad, and the super fun

September 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Books

For your reading pleasure, a round-up of stories from the past week in the world of books: the good, the bad, and the super fun!

The good
The awesome décor/creativity blog decor8 writes about a community bookcase in Hannover, Germany, with contents that are 100% free to the public. No library card or money is needed – [...]

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My book-loving heart can’t take it!

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Books

First, Pages. And now, TYPE on the Danforth.* My book-loving heart can’t handle all this pain!
Also, if you don’t have any plans for next Tuesday night in Toronto, come to Afterword: A Celebration of 30 Years of Pages at the Gladstone. The vast majority of the book-loving community in T.O. will be there, so you’ll [...]

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Bella & Edward love Brontë, so you should, too

September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Books, Commentary, Design

You knew it was bound to happen. I mean, pretty much every major publishing house probably has a team of marketers whose main job is to sit around thinking up ways that they can capitalize on the Twilight phenomenon. So it was really only a matter of time before one of them decided to re-brand [...]

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Suzanne, the Book Blog Queen

May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Web

This post isn’t exactly commentary on the publishing industry, but rather an update on my own role within it.
As of May 1st, I am now the editorial intern at Quill & Quire and will hold this position until the end of August. I’ve been kept quite busy so far by blogging (three posts today, one [...]

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Amazon receives major backlash as LGBT books unexpectedly removed from rankings

April 12th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Books, Commentary

Update: Amazon has called this a “glitch in its sales ranking feature” and that there is “no new adult policy”. Read the full story at Publisher’s Weekly, but feel free to still be suspicious (as I am).

The Twitterverse has been all a-flutter this fine Easter Sunday as Amazon has unexpectedly removed sales rankings, listings, and [...]

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