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Finally, a Diet to Love … Read Local: The 100-Mile Book Diet
Have you ever fallen so in love with a Canadian town, village, or landscape described in a book you had to visit it yourself? Has it ever felt like you’ve …
Helen Kubiw: Exceptional Kids' Novels in Verse
Judging by the awards bestowed upon the ten books in this list and the young readers of both genders who consume these stories voraciously, the novel …
Podcast: Nora Young talks about her book The Virtual Self and how our digital lives can reground us in the physical realm.
CBC's Nora Young talks about how the banal details of our digital lives will reshape how we live in the physical world.
Douglas Hunter's "Race to the New World"-- An Excerpt
"It was assumed that John Cabot and Christopher Columbus were two of a kind, in both ambitions and origins. In truth, although their careers were deeply …
Your (Bad) Mother's Day Liberation: "All women lie. They lie because they have to."
"My name is Willow Yamauchi, and I am a Bad Mommy. I’m also an epic mommy, an awesome mommy, a funny mommy, a loving, caring over-functioning mommy. …
Robert Rotenberg on engaging readers, why more men should read fiction and his love of #haiku.
Robert Rotenberg also talks about how Canadian crime writers are the "New Scandinavians".
Because it's good for you: Barbara McVeigh on reading #SportsLit
“sports are rife with the drama of life, with full and rich metaphorical and symbolic possibilities” --Priscila Uppal
Read a Book, Share a Story! TD Children's Book Week 2012
Events include 116 free public readings.
The Rehab Question: Novelist Catherine McKenzie on making the leap from fact to fiction.
"I’m not writing what I know; I’m writing what I imagine."
Olympian Marnie McBean on how setting reasonable goals will help you achieve remarkable results.
Marnie McBean thinks stress is your friend, because it means you're ambitious about your goals.