One-Way Bridge

One time Canadian Cathie Pelletier has a new book coming out and the advance buzz has been pretty great! I was not familiar with her work, but a few of the reps in our office were and were pretty excited. I took their lead and had a thoroughly good time reading One-Way Bridge. Fans will be thrilled to return to their beloved Mattagash and for newbies like me, what a delight to discover. She has fans such as Ruchard Russo, Fannie Flagg and our own Alistar MacLeod.

Portlandia

We all know and love Women & Women First, the spectacularly user unfriendly feminist bookstore from Portlandia; but how cool is it when they visit a real feminist bookstore?
Enjoy!

Please Judge these Covers!

I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but COME ON! This website shows us a few doozies.

So Long, and Thanks For All The Reviews…

is the title of a recent blog on the departure of the two long standing book review editors, Martin Levin and Jack Kirchoff, at the Globe and Mail. These two will be sorely missed.

Will Gutenberg laugh last?

I saw a great quote the other day by Stephen Fry: "the Kindle is no more a threat to the printed book than the escalator was to the staircase".  Here is a good article discussing the whole death of the printed book. Nicholas Carr supports his piece with lots of numbers.