Book City Discount Card?

I noticed an ad in today's Globe: Book City has a new discount card. 10% off paperbacks, and 10% hardcovers (in addition to their regular 10% discount), plus points. I bought a book last night at Book City on Danforth, and there was no sign or any other mention of this. You will probably have to ask for it.

Cheers,
Connie

The Globe 100

The Globe and Mail today published its top 100 book picks for 2004, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Currently available on the The Globe and Mail Book Club webpage.

Whitbread Book Awards - Shortlists announced

The short lists for the U.K. Whitbread Book Awards were released on November 10th. Thanks to the latest BookClubs.ca BookBuzz for the info!

bookclubs.ca | contest

The website bookclubs.ca is having a "win an author for your book club meeting" type contest. It involves filling out a survey about the book club. Are we interested in this; if I fill this survey in and win, do we want an author to visit us? Also, do others want to fill out the survey to increase our chances??

Let me know - connieblog@sympatico.ca

Thanks!

New e-mail addresses

Jenny and former member Tod both have new e-mail addresses. Contact Connie at connieblog@sympatico.ca if you need a reminder! (I'm not posting other people's addresses onto the website so you don't get spammed).

Canada Reads 2005 Released!

The new Canada Reads 2005 books for 2005 have been released. The new books:

Rockbound by Donna Morrissey
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield
Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

I have only heard of the Cohen and Atwood books, so will be interesting to learn more about these. Debates start the week of February 21, 2005.

Upcoming book events

Here are a few upcoming book events: bookclubs.ca Toronto events. Hey, Kyan from Queer Eye will be in town promoting his book on the 30th! Cool.

Meeting Update

Meetings updated Nov. 19/04

Thanks to Jonathan for a fine gathering last night! I'm wondering how he managed to actually get us all together at the same time? Gotta get me some o' dem dim sum dumplins and Miz Vicky's chips....

Upcoming meetings:

December
Social meeting! No book read, we take a break from the books to enjoy each others' company. Former members, prospective members, friends and family are welcome to join us. Tentatively booked for Friday, December 10, we plan to see an early evening movie and then gather for drinks and nibbles after. Let me know if this evening doesn't work for you! We will pick our movie that week.

January
Host: Connie
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Book: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

February
Host: Jenny
Book: tba

March
Host: Chris
Book: tba

April
Host: Cheryl
Book: tba

May
Host: Beth
Book: tba

Now booking for next summer!!! My, how time flies when you are having fun...

Happy reading everyone!
Cheers,
Connie

Alice Munro wins the Giller!

Alice Munro has won the 2004 Giller Prize for her short story collection Runaway.

What the Heck? Na-No-Blog-Mo and Na-No-Wri-Mo

This blog records links to all the blogs from writers who are recording their "National Novel Writing Month" novels: Na-No-Blog-Mo.

And this is the link to the National Novel Writing Month blog itself:
Na-No-Wri-Mo.

Just in case you were looking for more to read!! >8-)

November Book

Host: Jonathan
Book: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Date: November 17, 2004

This is The One!

This is our blog! I have closed down the other one at Typepad. I look forward to boosting the content a little so you find it helpful. Most importantly a posting of past and upcoming books.

Cheers,
Connie

Typepad test site for this book club

Check it out, only open until Friday!! Thursday Book Club.