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I just found out about a very nice contest you can enter if you’re Canadian, where you can win an 8-day “green trip” to Spain, courtesy of Lonely Planet and Raincoast Books. The prize is a self-guided walking tour, from UTracks, of the Genal Valley in Andalucia. I didn’t realize that Lonely Planet had an [...] … being ignorant of Canadian feminist history is pretty much a given. But if anyone ever hears about feminism in Canada, the one name they’ll likely know (if only vaguely) will be that of Nellie McClung. At best, they’ll have heard some quotations — McClung was brilliant with the one-liners, and produced some humdingers. … [...] Woo! Another free ebook for our reading pleasure! And another great chance for people like me, who haven’t read anything by John Hart, to get familiar with his mystery thrillers. His third book, The Last Child, is coming out on May 12th, so in honour of that, people are being invited to download a free [...] …according to critics, part of the settlement would allow Google to get exclusive license to millions of “orphan books,” whose authors or rights-holders are unknown. Eventually, Google would pretty much own every book ever written, or have exclusive access. … [...] Sunday morning! And another chance to wile away some leisure time, perusing the doings of some other bookish friends. Hava, at the Nonfiction Book Review blog had the great pleasure of introducing Laurence Gonzales (author of Deep Survival) when he came to speak at her college. And then he returned the next day to speak [...] I know I’m behind everyone else, but last night I finally finished Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay. I’m sure most of you have at least heard of this character, even if you haven’t seen the popular HBO program or read the books. Dexter is the serial killer who only fulfills his inner urges [...] I just ran across a funny post on the Galadriel’s Adventures blog. She talks about a dilemma where two children at the day care really really wanted the same book. And the rather…unique solution one of them came up with, to solve the problem. I’m not sure what my own response would have been, and [...] I just heard about something starting in the U.K. that could be a great thing, and I hope it catches on in North America. The People’s Book Prize website is going to launch on June 1, 2009, but there’s already some information there. This is going to be a prize which doesn’t have a select [...] |
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