Kathleen Molloy

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. http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2009/07/rj-harlick-cool-canadian-crime.html   

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!

As posted on the Quille and Quire Blog here are the Pride Month’s

BookNet bestsellers: Gay Fiction

June 30, 2009 |

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 … 

‘It’s like cutting the oxygen off,’ former curator says Patrick Dare’s July 3 Ottawa Citizen piece reveals that

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

The Juggle isn’t always easy. But I don’t have to convince you – you are a product of a working mom too. Or you are a working mom. Or you are married to a working mom.  Working moms work. All the time. In or out of the home. Work. All the time.

And after a while of doing it all, all the time, working moms start to get complacent… start to think that because they’ve been doing everything they can do ANYTHING.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is something that this working mom can’t do. Tonight Kiddo #1 asked “Mommy, can you do this?”

This evening I discovered that I can’t lick my armpits.

The Juggle isn’t always easy. But I don’t have to convince you – you are a product of a working mom too. Or you are a working mom. Or you are married to a working mom.  Working moms work. All the time. In or out of the home. Work. All the time.

And after a while of doing it all, all the time, working moms start to get complacent… start to think that because they’ve been doing everything they can do ANYTHING.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is something that this working mom can’t do. Tonight Kiddo #1 asked “Mommy, can you do this?”

This evening I discovered that I can’t lick my armpits.

Ellen Seligman is the new President of PEN Canada. Why does this make me smile? It means that another booklover heads up an organization committed to defending freedom of opinion as enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Benjamin Cunningham captures the heart of the Prague Writers’ Festival in his summary posted in The Prague Post. The heart is a piece about exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian. In 1987, his work Stick Out Your Tongue got his writing outlawed in China. Now living in London, he is remembering an old China as he writes. His latest work Beijing Coma tells the story of a comatose Ph.D. student who has just woken up from his coma after being hit by a bullet during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Old and new clash. Just as old and new clash in Prague. I fell in love with Prague. I fell in love with Prague decades before I visited it in 2000. And when I think back on what I loved the most of the millions of things that I loved about that city was this: men reading in public. Everywhere, EVERYWHERE men had their noses in books.  How can I get an invite to the Prague Writers’ Festival? I’d love to see where the men are now reading Ma Jian in the streets.