On October 13, 2010 The Canada Council for the Arts announced the names of the 70 finalists for the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards. The English and French awards are in the categories of fiction, non fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation. Fiction Finalists David Bezmozgis, Toronto, The Free World (HarperCollins Publishers; [...]
Book Club Activities: Serious and Silly By Brenda Brooks Serious book club activities should seek to heighten an appreciation for books, authors, and literature in general. The sole mandate of silly book club activities, however, is to amuse yourselves at any cost, regardless of all of the above. Some activities, with slight tweaking, may be [...]
Book Club Invitations: More Spice Please By Brenda Brooks The two most common responses to book club invitations are as follows: Grateful and enthusiastic acceptance followed by devoted attendance and painstaking readings of each designated book, or, grateful and enthusiastic acceptance (What a swell idea! What time? What book? I’ll bring my spicy wings dish!), [...]
Book Trailer for The Girl in the Box by Sheila Dalton When Jerry meets the parents of a young Mayan girl on a bus in Guatemala, they plead with him to help. He visits their home and is appalled to learn that they keep their mute daughter, Inez, chained in a small dark room in [...]
CHILD HONOURING: How to turn the world around Forward by Dalai Lama Raffi Cavoukian, Sharma Olfman, Editors ISBN 978-0-9866446-0-3 Homeland Press (2010) Reviewed by Tim Christison Child Honouring is a collection of scholarly readings and heartfelt essays that gives the reader an emotional workout while exploring the wisdom of 29 contributors. Stacked with statistics behind [...]
Discount Book Clubs: From Vampires to Romance By Brenda Brooks Discount book clubs figured in my life early. My sister and I spent our adolescence and early teens steeped in our mother’s selections from discount book clubs. These were hardcover volumes with covers and titles so intriguing we could hardly be blamed for thinking of them as [...]
Films Based on Novels: One for Strangers on a Train By Brenda Brooks I’ve seen many films based on novels, but one rises high above the rest. Opening Scene: It’s Saturday night. A TV screen flickers in the living room of a 1960’s era house. Most of the family has turned in, except for a pajama-clad [...]
One For Sorrow, Two For Joy is a diverse collection that embraces humor, pathos and the macabre. The title refers to magpies, and is a chant that most people who originated in Britain will recognize… three for a girl, four for a boy, etc. “One For Sorrow, Two For Joy” is the autobiographical [...]
One Hundred Butterflies was originally published by Broken Moon Press in 1992 and immediately became a favourite of Peter Levitt’s followers. It soon went out of print, but after frequent requests for copies, Peter Levitt has reissued a new edition, this one perhaps even more beautiful than the last, with the same haunting effect. The [...]
One Hundred Butterflies by Peter Levitt Blissful Monkey Press, 2011 BCB: Peter Levitt is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction. Peter, let’s make this very open-ended. Can you tell readers about One Hundred Butterflies? Peter Levitt: The first thing I’d like to tell you is how One Hundred Butterflies was written. [...]
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