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Blog postSaturday, April 30 is your chance to celebrate heroes of the Canadian book business, Canada’s independent sellers. Read my take on why they deserve celebrating, and I’ll then tell you what they’re doing to celebrate you, their customers.
My friend says, “Books are cheaper somewhere else.”
But when people buy cheaper, author royalties are correspondingly smaller.
Indies care about writers and their ability to keep writing.
I like indie bookstores best.
I like -
Blog post… as Paul Simon wrote in the lyrics of “Old Friends” while still in his twenties.
My birthday is this month. Friends older than I am smile or even laugh when I say how strange it feels to be on the brink of seventy. “You’re so young,” one said to me recently. I suppose in some respects it’s true. It’s also true that I am no longer young.
Last month I came across “Self-Portrait” by Mar
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Blog postThis International Women’s Day post picks up from last month’s post left off, and offers my reaction to a few books by women—fiction and non-fiction—that I’ve rated highly on goodreads so far this year.
Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist by Donna Morrissey As a longtime fan of Donna Morrissey’s novels, I had the great pleasure of hanging out with her at a literary festival a few years ago. In Pluck I learned m -
Blog postWhen I delivered the 33rd Helen Stubbs Memorial Lecture in the fall of 2021, one of my themes was women. I started it with a reading from Saturday Walk, a book I’d read as a child, back in the 1950s. It’s about a young boy walking with his dad observing all the men at work around his community, having waved goodbye to his aproned mother standing in the doorway of their home. An abundance of males populate the book’s pages. Even the firemen’s dog is male. And by the last spread of the book, Mo
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Blog postA number of things late this year have been nudging me in a new direction for my writing. It started in November when I decided to go through a file called “Scribblings” to see just what I’d stuffed in there over the years.
“Scribblings” contained notebooks and loose pages; writing exercises I’d done with various classes and from books about writing; notes from talks I listened to and about projects I was working on or might work on some day. Sifting through the material was a bi -
Blog postWhat do these books have in common? 1. Both were signed to me personally and mailed to me from the US by their authors.
2. I value both books highly, and even moreso the connections I’ve made with their authors, whom I have never met.
This would not be the case, were it not for our current, ongoing pandemic, and the resulting introduction of online gatherings as a regular feature of our lives. This is not to say I’m glad for the pandemic; it has had a devastating effect on fa -
Blog postHow could I say no? It was an honour to be asked, back in February 2019, if I would “consider speaking at the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books in Toronto” as the 33rd annual Helen E. Stubbs memorial lecturer in the fall of 2020.
“This lecture series,” Martha Scott wrote, “is held in the memory of Helen E. Stubbs (1907-1987), who began her career as a children's Librarian in Toronto Public Library’s Boys and Girls Division, and became the Acting Head of B
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Blog postLike many Canadians, I’m horrified and saddened by stories that continue to come out about the mistreatment, past and present day, of Indigenous people in this country. So I’m pleased to know that starting tomorrow, we will be honouring the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities with a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which coincides with Orange Shirt Day.
Wearing an orange shirt on September 30 is a way of saying you understand a -
Blog postDrawing by the author’s grandson
The subject of my latest book, The Girl Who Loved Giraffes — Anne Innis Dagg — wants to share her life-long love of giraffes.
If you’re 7-17 years old, you can meet with her and other young giraffe lovers from around the world online every month by joining the Junior Giraffe Club, set up by the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation. You’ll learn about giraffes in the wild and in captivity, the challenges that giraffes face, and meet with giraffe zookeeper -
Blog postWhether you’re spending your summer close to home or venturing farther afield, I hope you’re enjoying the luxury of some summer reading time. Whether on a beach or an apartment balcony, in a hammock or a tent, there’s something special about the longer, warmer days that says “Relax. Let yourself sink into one of those books you’ve been meaning to get to all year.”
Three books I plan to read this summer are by authors I’ve read before.
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Po
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