This was an unusual reading year for me, what with the arrival of Owen at New Year's and the subsequent months of not sleeping. Mid-January, as I continued to read four pages a day in the novel I started at Christmas, I set myself the goal of reading twelve books this year. At the...
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One of the sad publishing-industry events in Vancouver in 2010 was the shuttering of Duthie Books, one of the last great non-used indie bookstores in town.
I admit I had mixed feelings about its closing. I loved the idea of Duthie's, but I'd often felt kind of intimidated going in there. And the rhetoric coming...
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I've been thinking about my book-buying habits lately. Partly because I've been reading ebooks on my iPad and partly just because I'm fascinated by the evolving business of publishing.
So I decided to be systematic.
Here's a list of the books I've read in the last year, and either how I found out about them or...
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