Norah McClintock's Taken is a fusion of two genres I read a lot of in my teen years, the teen mystery/thriller + the teen survival story. Part of the appeal of these stories is the unfolding plot (and plot twists), so I won't go into too much detail beyond my original summary for our booklist: When […]
Check your email–winners for the week of July 19-25 have been drawn and contacted (and I even remembered to post about it on the day I did it this time). Alan H. is a web librarian at Toronto Public Library. He is growing forgetful in his old age, apparen’tly.
Last week I read: Scott Pilgrim Volume 6! Yay! TPL already has copies available to borrow / place holds on–I got mine at the midnight release party at The Beguiling, where I had the same thought I usually do going to these kind of events these days: "My gosh, almost everyone else here is younger […]
Check your email–we've drawn the prize winners for the July 12 – 18 period and contacted them (I actually did this two days ago on Friday, but forgot to make a post).
Just a quick note to say we now have a page listing our participating authors for this year. They make us more awesome. Thanks participating authors!
My main read last week was Canadian writer Emily Schultz's incredible Joyland, set in small-town Ontario in 1984 and framed by the first generation of video games. I'm slightly too young to have been a part of that scene (I'm a child of the original 8-bit Nintendo & the Sega Master System), but so much […]
Check your email–we've drawn the prize winners for the July 5 – 11 period and contacted them. Congratulations to all winners, and thanks everyone for a great first week!
Just a quick note to say we've added the existing video book reviews to a YouTube playlist for easier viewing. Great work so far everyone–keep them coming! (and remember that doing video reviews gives you more chances at prizes).
I will now interview myself to explain why this wasn't posted on Monday! AH: Why wasn't this posted on Monday? AH: For the last week and a bit I've been on vacation in Winnipeg, Manitoba. AH: Did you have a good time? AH: Yes! I went to my cousin's wedding and received roughly 10,000 mosquito […]
7 favourite lists from Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists: You Got Your Moog in my Keytar! (10 highly pretentious musical instrument) - pg. 18 Click Here for Severed Face (30 disturbingly specific Internet Movie Database keywords) – pg. 59 […]