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The Personal Book Shopper Contest #mybookshopper
What if you could submit a few "choice words" to a personal book shopper—#mybookshopper—someone who wanders off into the bookish wild armed with only …
What is a Canadian Bookshelf?
Canadian Bookshelf: introducing a platform for discovering Canadian books in all their amazing diversity.
Books to discover: The 2011 Atlantic Book Awards
Atlantic Canada recognized its recent literary successes on May 19 at the 2011 Atlantic Book Awards.
Does the great Canadian cottage novel have yet to be written?
On this Victoria Day long weekend, Canadians will travel to cottage country to mark the unofficial start of summer, although many of us will only make …
Interview with a video wrangler: Jen Knoch, on keeping her city reading
Jen Knoch runs the Keeping it Real Book Club, and Keeps Toronto Reading (in conjunction with the Toronto Public Library’s April campaigns) by curating …
Power and Politics (List by Jonathan Bennett)
It's not all crooked cops and murder in Jonathan Bennett's novel Entitlement, which is also a gripping examination of power and politics in Canada. On …
Verve: Check. Smarts: Check—Julie Wilson Joins as Host and Producer
If you work in Canadian publishing, you’ve more than likely enjoyed the wit and original productions of Julie Wilson, aka Book Madam; if you’re an …
Kerry Clare Joins 49thShelf.com as Editor
With great pleasure we welcome Kerry Clare of the much-loved lit blog Pickle Me This to the 49thShelf.com team. Kerry will add her mind-boggling reading …
Brick Books' Poetry Podcast Channel: A Fantastic Point of Discovery
A poem on a page has its own power, but the poem comes alive in an entirely different and more accessible way when read aloud by the person who's written …
Someone Who Writes
This week's guest post is from Angie Abdou, finalist in Canada Reads for The Bone Cage (published by NeWest Press) and author of the just released The …