The Average Canadian Book Buyer According to BookNet Canada, we now know what the average book buyer looks like. Am I going to tell you here? Nope. I can say that they are of a female persuasion…
June Staff Picks: Books
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains Neil Gaiman & Eddie Campbell William Morrow This is the illustrated version of the short story previously featured in the Stories: All New Tales collection. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains is available to read online, and is a dark, ominous tale full…
BookCon 2014: “What Even Is This Place?”
Early March: I get a lot of advertisement emails, as a Librarian, to attend various conferences with long acronyms for names: YALSA, ASCLA, PALA, etc etc. So when I got one that simply said “BookCon”, I was intrigued by the overt simplicity of the name. BookCon. A Book Convention. A quick look told me it…
Libraries v. Parents
Last week a library in Hertfordshire, England, put new restrictions on who could check out certain materials. Children under 16 can no longer check out graphic novels shelved in the adult section. A parent complained after she was able to check out graphic novels such as Fatale with her ten year old’s library card. She…
Kickstarter of the Week: Bring Reading Rainbow to Children Everywhere
My brother set me on the road to bibliophilia by teaching me to read dinosaur books at age two, but it was LeVar Burton who guided me down that path with his Reading Rainbow. I consider the television show to be a major part of my childhood and even created a little bookclub in its honour. But…
Dogears: In the Beginning (there were short book reviews)
Our first short book reviews collection! Every month Dogears will bring you bite-sized, bookish satisfaction. This month, we’re talking SF, fantasy, and YA. Southern Reach: Authority Jeff Vandermeer FSG Originals This trilogy, all completed and being released over the course of the year, has become my must-read books list of 2014. The story revolves around…
The Thursday Book Beat: “Love Letters to the Dead” Gets Optioned by Fox 2000
Hello, Book Nerds! Thursday means book news, so anything that quakes in the book industry in the last week will be featured here. Grab onto your favourite dog-eared book and enjoy the ride.
Spring Reading 2014
Wonderful Wizard of Oz Eric Shanower and Skottie Young Marvel Comics After a long, cold winter filled with grey skies (like the grey plains of Kansas), nothing feels better than a road trip in warm weather. Dorothy and her friends have the ultimate on-the-road adventure in the land of Oz, and anyone is invited to…
Is it Autobiographical? And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask: Gabriel Roth Promotes Through Twitter Spat with Publisher
In a world where stunts are a popular method to attention for and move products, it is unsurprising that one would be used to sell a book. Take yesterday: observers (including me) were trying to figure out if the Q&A disaster between Little, Brown & Co. and author, Gabriel Roth, was in fact a stunt…
The Thursday Book Beat
Hello, Book Nerds! From now on, Thursdays will be all about book news. Anything that quakes in the book industry in the last week will be featured here, so grab onto your favourite, dog-eared book and enjoy the ride. Tolkein’s Beowulf Translation Finally Published J. R. R. Tolkein’s estate has teamed up with HarperCollins to publish his…
Apple Picking At Night: Friendship, Risks & Summer Loving
Since You’ve Been Gone Morgan Matson Simon & Schuster I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of the book from the publisher for an honest review. Since You’ve Been Gone is about Emily and Sloane: two best friends about to embark on an epic summer of fun. Right before it even begins, Sloane disappears leaving…
News and Things: Killer Book Kept Under Wraps
HarperCollins Keeps Zodiac Killer Book Quiet You don’t often have a publisher keep a hype worthy book under wraps for as long as HarperCollins did. The Most Dangerous Animal of All, by Gary L. Stewart, is about the author’s search for his biological father who he alleges to be the Zodiac Killer. The book was…