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Review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Within the first chapter, Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (HarperCollins) had me hooked with its rickety bookstore ladders, unforgiving San Francisco hills, and promise of conspiracy...
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8 New Books I’m Excited About This Fall
For me, autumn is usually a time of new school books and an increased reading load. This fall, however, marks the first year I’m not in class, and so to celebrate, I plan to use some of my free time to...
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Longbourn and Pride & Prejudice
Longbourn (Random House of Canada) is a delightful revisiting of the Bennet household, examining social questions and historic conflicts in a different light than Pride and Prejudice. The novel follows...
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Review: Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Night Film by Marisha Pessl (Random House) is an uncanny psychological thriller that delves into the secretive world of underground filmmaker Stanislas Cordova to explore the relationship between the...
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Review: Not Quite the Classics by Colin Mochrie
Not Quite the Classics (Viking Canada) was a book Colin Mochrie never intended to write, but I’m glad he did. Inspired by the improv game First Line, Last Line, Mochrie writes twelve short stories...
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2014 Reading Challenges
So this year I thought I would participate in a few reading challenges in an effort to get through all the unread books on my shelves, and also to boldly go into strange new worlds and seek out new...
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Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Every decade or so, Donna Tartt reemerges from her reclusive writerly life to publish a new book, at which time her readers crawl back out from under the spines of other novels, ready to accept the...
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Great Books You Probably Haven’t Read
Last week, John Green, the patron saint of authors on social media and online communities, made a video recommending eighteen of his favourite books that aren’t bestsellers. The full list is available...
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3-Day Novel Writing Tips
Now that Rachel Slansky’s novel “Moss-Haired Girl” has been named the winner of the 2013 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, along with the shortlist, I thought I’d share a few tips on writing and submitting...
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Review: The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet
If you haven’t watched The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, do that before reading this review (I’ll wait). Produced by Hank Green and Bernie Su, the webseries is a compelling modern adaptation of Pride and...
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