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Who stole our reading time?
Reading in a Distracted Society…
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iPad and Book Culture
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” (Grouch Marx)
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Be a ‘Featured Reader’ on the CBC Book Club…
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Family Literacy Day 
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The ’Joys’ of Travel Writing… 
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Watching the Faces of Students…
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Paul Quarrington
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Funding cuts to lit journals.
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Tale of dolls on a plane can’t make it past airport security
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Vancouver’s Duthie Books to Close
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Technology in Book Publishing
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P.K. Page, 1916-2010
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A creative take on a bookstore…
(Is it just me or is anyone else in the mood for an omelette?)
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Because today is Thursday and that means cheese.
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The Translation Gap
Literary Translation in Canada
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The Art of book covers…
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The Most Anticipated Books of 2010
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How the Apple Tablet could alter publishing
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Great idea…great line-up! 
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Happy New Year!
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McNally Robinson Closes Two Stores
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Another Case for Real Books…
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On Reviewing
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TLS Christmas Quiz
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An audio treat; listen to Derek McCormack on the tradition and history of holiday calendars.
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Torontoist serializes seasonal story
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Top Ten Literary Feuds of the Aughts
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The Not-Quite Novel
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Toronto Women’s Bookstore in Danger of Closing
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Thoughts on eReaders.
Curl up with Shakespeare and canned fireplace crackle…
And thoughts on eWriting.
Electronic ‘Literature‘
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Open Access Encyclopedias
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A ‘howdunit’ from one of the best in the mystery business
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Women’s Writing
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Oh look—what a surprise—another list!
Worst Books of the Decade 
A reminder that everything’s relative…
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Cheese(y) Poetry?
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Word of the day: niphablespsia
(and no, DH, it has nothing do with queens—of any sort)
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The case for non-fiction…
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Author book tours as ‘endangered species’…
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Differences between British, Canadian and American Spelling
A reference guide.
Bad Spellers, by Stephen Henighan
An essay.
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A good site to bookmark.
And just for fun, because it’s Friday.
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The rise of poetry in advertising
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Canada Reads announces its 2010 contenders
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Historical fiction is gaining critical respectability – and popularity
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The best-reviewed, buzziest books of 2009
Along with Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro and Giller Winner, Linden MacIntyre—our very own Book Club author, Ray Roberston, makes The Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of 2009, with his new novel, ”DAVID”.
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Read review of “DAVID” here. .
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In Roald Dahl’s curmudgeon’s cave
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Our hunger for cookbooks.
And happy Thursday.
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Anansi Girls and the Art of Book Club
Maintenance
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