The Pulitizer Prize winners were announced yesterday afternoon. And the winners are: Category: Fiction The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead eBook eAudiobook Category: Biography/Autobiography The Return by Hisham Matar eBook Category: History Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson eBook Category: General Nonfiction Evicted by Matthew […]
Check out this great post from guest blogger Dara Renton who originally posted this on TPL's Digital Library Services blog: Last week you may have heard that you live in the most well-read city in the world according to our ebook lending service. In 2016, Torontonians downloaded over 3 million ebooks and eaudiobooks from OverDrive. […]
The Governor General's Literary Awards finalists were announced on October 4th. Fiction finalists: The Break by Katherena Vermette Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien The Parcel by Anosh Irani Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush by Kerry Lee Powell Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin Translation (French to English) finalists: […]
And the finalists are… 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (also on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize) The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux The Wonder by Emma Donahue Yiddish […]
The longlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced today. For the whole rundown, visit our Book Buzz blog: https://blogs.tpl.ca/bookbuzz/2016/09/2016-scotiabank-giller-prize.html
Here's a glimpse at what Toronto Public Library staff are reading this week: Yoojin, Fort York Branch: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng This book kicks off with the mysterious death of Lydia, a sixteen-year-old girl growing up in the suburbs of Ohio in the late 1970s, but there is much more to it than just […]
One of the nice things about working in a library is that your colleagues tend to be passionate about reading. Here's a roundup of some of the things people at the library are reading (or listening to) this week: Jane: North York Central Library Browsery Department I highly recommend Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novel Series on eAudio. There […]
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Summer Reads: Staff Fiction Picks Technically it is still summer, so this blog post is not that late. I have to say, for someone who does a lot of reading outside, Summer 2014 has been a major disappointment! When I wasn't chilled, I was rained on, and had to move my summer reading indoors, which […]
Have you fallen in love? Does a particular book / movie / tv series / author / book series make you swoon or set you on fire? Share the love! Post your latest fave and summer thrill.