I really miss the used bookstore scene of London, ON. For all the abuse the city takes for its Ugg-centered social scene and lack of cultural amenities, I always thought Li'l London featured lots of great, quirky bookstores. Attic Books on Dundas was one of my faves…and though I didn't need it, here's another reason […]
Very possibly. (via Reddit)
“What Three Books Should You Read To Better Understand Humanity?” (via Reddit)“What's the Most Eye-Opening Non-Fiction Book You've Ever Read?” (via Reddit)And if fiction is more to your taste, why not check out this list of “Best Books of the Decade” by Corey Redekop, my library school colleague who's also a book reviewer and published […]
The person who designed this display obviously has a good sense of humour!
Pace is two and a half now and so I thought it'd be fun to do a list of the books I like to read him at bedtime (note: these are *my* favourites to read. His favourites list would include: “That book about diggers”, “That book about fire trucks”, “That book about tractors” and “That […]
Well, the noughties aren't quite over but that hasn't stopped various “Best of the Decade” lists from starting to appear including this one of the Top 50 Books of the 2000's (including some mini-essays on some of the most notable ones.)
I attended the Saskatchewan Book Awards last Saturday night and since it was the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that first got me involved with that organization, I thought this would be a good time to post the third part of a series I'm doing on the main things I learned from the various jobs I've held […]
Lots of good, thought-provoking stuff in this 2005 commencement speech by David Foster Wallace. The following section especially jumped out at me knowing how Wallace would eventually kill himself a few years later:“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot […]
A double hit for the Friday Fun Link this week…Wordoid is a site that will generate realistic-looking but not-in-the-dictionary words. (via Christian Bok's Twitter feed) Readability is a bookmarklet that will help convert web sites into something a lot more readable.
I came across this site from 2003 where the BBC Radio 2 sponsored a contest to pick the UK's 200 best loved novels. Lots of familiar names on the Top 21 and I wonder if this contest was the origin of the “Canada Reads”-type events that have proliferated where one community/region/nation chooses a single book […]
