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2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed […]

Posted 31 December 2012 § Meme § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Which Book Made The Most “Best of” Lists in 2012?

This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists?  (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!)  Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad! In my own […]

Posted 27 December 2012 § Library § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Outdoor Coed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society

You know you’re old and married when you’re more interested in what books they’re reading than the other “boo” word that’s being featured in these photos!  😉

Posted 14 December 2012 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Baby Guess Book

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Posted 07 December 2012 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“A Healthy Society” And The Role of This Book in the #skndpldr campaign of @ryanmeili

Today, Ryan Meili’s campaign announced a very unique fundraiser aimed at getting 50 people to donate $50 (or more!) for a copy of his book, “A Healthy Society” in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Medicare. For a $50 donation, people are able to get a signed copy of a book written by the person […]

Posted 21 November 2012 § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

@ryanMeili Monday Redux – Punching Above Your Weight as #skndpldr #nyc #manhattan

With Ryan Meili in New York today for the launch of “A Healthy Society” at Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan at 7pm (and with him getting some pretty high profile attention via a post by Niki Ashton on Michael Moore’s web site), I thought it might be worth re-posting a link to an earlier blog post […]

Posted 05 November 2012 § Canada § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Canada Reads 2013 Releases Top 10 Books By Region

Lots of interesting looking books on this list.

Posted 01 November 2012 § Canada § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Will Ferguson Wins #Giller Prize, Is All Around Good Guy #canlit

When I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta, the biggest part of my job was probably working with beginning and emerging writers.  So you can imagine my surprise when the phone rang one day and I heard a voice on the other end of the line say: “Jason, it’s Will, Will Ferguson calling.” He […]

Posted 30 October 2012 § Canada § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Pace’s First Scholastic School Book Order

Another big school-related milestone for Pace… (Man, I loved getting books from Scholastic as a kid!)

Posted 26 September 2012 § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Few AskReddit Book Threads

What is the best non-fiction book you’ve ever read? Good fiction about mental illness? Suggestions to get a male non-reader more into books? Reddit’s Favourite Books: The Master List – a Redditor goes through a bunch of popular book recommendation threads and uses the up votes of the books in each to compile a master […]

Posted 25 September 2012 § Internet § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: