Courtesy: Bookriot
What are you doing this weekend?
I’m going to the Sketch Com-Ageddon finals at Toronto’s Comedy Bar. Can’t imagine what these comics have to laugh about, can you?
I need a good laugh as I finish off the last pages of The Orenda which has been bloody, gripping and disturbing as hell.
I hope every high school student in the country reads it, not to mention the rest of us. It might change your mind forever about the origins of this country. It did for me.
The Orenda is on the new Globe and Mail guide to 100 of this year’s best books, just released today. Hurrah, I say. A month ago we were all celebrating Alice Munro’s Nobel win. The world was toasting our smarty pants writers. Then, some other idiotic kind of celebrity caused their attention to waver. I hope this list is a good reminder that our writers are the real rock stars in this country.( read the whole list here)
If you don’t like that list, try the Guardian‘s list of best bets of 2013 from top writers and critics. ( read here)
There’s no shortage of gift ideas here for bookish types on your list but why stop there? Show the world your love of the classics with wearable word leggings.
( See Buzzfeed’s list of other ideas for the bookworm in your life)
Buying new hardcovers can be pricey. There’s always your local library. Or is there?
This Sunday, a first ever forum will be held on the future of our public library system, the busiest in North America, now under threat of serious budget cuts.
Show up at City Hall, at 2 pm, to join a panel of authors and others inside that rarefied space we have come to know as Council Chamber. If public engagement is truly on the rise*, here’s a chance to fill that chamber with a fresh, if welcome, blast of hot air.
( how you can participate: details here)
Have a great weekend. And don’t bother with the new flick Delivery Man. See the original instead. Starbuck was the hit of last year’s festival scene and a hoot. You’ll have more way more fun.
*For more on the end of apathy, see: Maybe Rob Ford did us a favour
