David Cole continues his Cool Canadian Crime interviews. See what west-Quebec mystery writer RJ Harlick is up to. I’ll give you a hint… her characters are freezing their tushes off.
From Canada Day to Canada Day, will you read and review at 13 Canadian books?
Starting July 1st, 2009 and ending July 1st, 2010, John Mutford and friends challenge you to read 13 or more Canadian books.
For this 3rd Canandian Book Challenge I intend to read 13 Canadian erotica works. But I need a bit of direction and off the top of my head I can’t think of a single title, never mind 13 separate authors. HELP.
Please make your suggestions, all suggestions welcome.
Remember, the author must be Canadian and if the work is set in Canada even better!
1 All the Pretty Dead Girls, John Manning
(Kensington Publishing/Disticor Direct, $8.49 pa, 9780786017980)
2 Aloha, Candy Hearts, Anthony Bidulka
(Insomniac Press, $19.95 pa, 9781897178768)
3 Boy Crazy, Richard Labonté, ed.
(Cleis Press/Publishers Group Canada, $19.95 pa, 9781573443517)
4 Death in Key West, Jeffrey Round
(Cormorant Books, $20 pa, 9781897151433)
5 Daddies, Richard Labonté, ed.
(Cleis Press/PGC, $19.95 pa, 9781573443463)
6 Transgressions, Erastes
(Running Press/Disticor, $15 pa, 9780762435739)
7 False Colors, Alex Beecroft
(Running Press/Disticor, $15 pa, 9780762436583)
8 Fool for Love, Timothy J. Lambert and R.D. Cochran, eds.
(Cleis Press/PGC, $19.50 pa, 9781573443395)
9 A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
(Penguin, $15.50 pa, 9780143114840)
10 Relative Stranger, Stewart Lewis
(Alyson Books/Disticor, $18 pa, 9781593500689)
11 Between Men 2, Richard Canning, ed.
(Alyson Books/Disticor, $18.50 pa, 9781593501143)
12 Surfer Boys, Neil Plakcy, ed.
(Cleis Press/PGC, $19.95 pa, 9781573443494)
13 The Secret Tunnel, James Lear
(Cleis Press/PGC, $18 pa, 9781573443296)
14 What We Remember, Michael Ford
(Kensington Publishing/Disticor, $29.45 cl, 9780758218513)
15 Only the Lonely, Gary Zebrun
(Alyson Books/Disticor, $18 pa, 9781593500849)
16 Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin
(HarperCollins, $14.95 pa, 9780060761363)
17 Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonté, ed.
(Cleis Press/PGC, $20.50 pa, 9781573443340)
18 The Weekend, Peter Cameron
(Picador/H.B. Fenn and Company, $15.50 pa, 9780312428709)
19 Every Frat Boy Wants It, Todd Gregory
(Kensington Publishing/Disticor, $19 pa, 9780758217196)
20 Best Gay Romance 2008, Richard Labonté, ed.
(Cleis Press/PGC, $19.50 pa, 9781573443036)
We’ve had our fill of culture.
Library and Archives freezes purchases …
Library and Archives Canada
has stopped buying books.
On May 19, an e-mail went out from Library and Archives informing its suppliers of an immediate halt to paid acquisitions. This means that our more rare pieces of printed history are going to get snapped up by foreign buyers and private collectors. I guess we’ve had our fill of culture.
Find out why:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/Library+Archives+freezes+purchases/1758129/story.html
I love the idea of pairing a wine with a book. Book clubs in Halifax are consulting the website Reading Group Choices to do just that. I haven’t figured out if readers are getting sloshed in the stacks or not BUT…
Check out the Halifax Library staff picks on the blog thereader.ca
