A friend of mine brought to my attention the Frankenstein Horror Series, published in the early 1970′s by Popular Library, last week and it has been a really interesting little series to read about. This post from the Groovy Age of Horror website is by far the best review of the series and has great [...]
Here is the info for a couple of upcoming book launches from local mystery authors: Peggy Blair’s The Beggar’s Opera Thursday, 16 February, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Orange Art Gallery, 233 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario There will be live Cuban music with the terrific Cuban duet of Caridad Cruz and César Ricardo. Cuban [...]
While many of the items on the struck a close cord with many of my observations when we had the open store, unfortunately I can’t lay claim to this humorously honest list of 25 Things Learned From Opening a Bookstore. I can however confirm that while I’ve encountered pretty much everything on the list, numbers [...]
Saturday, January 28, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m at various libraries throughout Ottawa The concept An individual accepts to take part in the event as a Book Book reservations for specific time slots will be available the day of the event, at each site Books get “checked out” for 20 minutes by a Reader Talk [...]
The February 8th Heritage Signature Book Auction is offering up as one of the major highlights of the sale a signed presentation copy of Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. The book is signed by Hemingway to Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of “The Little Review”, and first to publish some of [...]
After over a hundred years of publishing history and launching the careers of Canadian literary icons such as Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Mordechai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry (just to name a few), McClelland & Stewart is no longer Canadian. As of Tuesday, Random House has now become [...]
This great little stop-motion film, The Joy of Books, was done at the Type Bookstore in Toronto. When the owner is away, the books shall play!
It’s that time of year again when five great Canadian books (backed by 5 renown Canadians) do battle debate style for the Canada Reads title. This year’s twist, the books are all non-fiction: The Game by: Ken Dryden Defended by: Alan Thicke On a Cold Road by: Dave Bidini Defended by: Stacey McKenzie Prisoner of [...]
Each Spring, The Alcuin Society holds an annual competition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The 30th anniversary of the Alcuin Book Awards will be held this coming March 31st and is open to all Canadian book designers. The Alcuin Society encourages students, private presses and self publishing artists to participate in this [...]
The blog of the Providence Public Library which I came across a couple months ago, Notes For Bibliophiles has great regularly posts of new acquisitions and other interesting items from their collection, often with great pictures of pieces (particularly Americana) not often seen. A great example of a library making available and sharing it’s collection virtually with book lovers from [...]