I must say, I do love this newspaper article title:
"A book so good, they even like it in Finland!
IMPAC longlist; Steven Galloway beloved by the world's librarians"
By Mark Medley, National Post
November 3, 2009
http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id...
Props to local New West resident Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo!
We'll have to wait till the shortlist is announced on April 14, 2010, and have champagne ready for the winner's announcement on June 17, 2010. ]]>
Heads up!
Robson Reading Series presents four emerging BC poets Thursday, November 12 at 7pm.
Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Onjana Yawnghwe and Al Rempel reading from "4 Poets" the first book in a new series by Mother Tongue Publishing, which features poetry, writing drafts, interviews, poetics, short biographies, art and photographs.
The poets will read their poems in English, as well as poems in the anthology that have been translated into French, Thai, Bulgarian and Tahltan.
Admission is free. Tea, coffee and cookies will be served.
At the UBC Bookstore/Library
Robson Square
Vancouver, BC ]]>
Check it out; David Suzuki is hosting his very own online book club event next week!
From: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/BookClub/
Their current book selection is appropriately enough, The sacred balance Rediscovering our place in nature by David Suzuki, with Amanda McConnell and Adrienne Mason
Book Club exclusive: ‘An intimate portrait of David Suzuki’
Join our first live online event Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 4:30 PST, including never-before-seen-in-public footage of David Suzuki speaking about his childhood and the twists and turns of life that made him the person we know today.
Wait...when is this happening...? 2010? I believe this is a slight typo, meaning Tuesday, November 10, 2009, and not November 9, 2010!!!
Sign up today!
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Actually, along the same lines as Life After People, the film "The Age of Stupid" looks at a similar pretense, but in a slightly more comical, yet cataclysmic manner.
via tenthtothefraser.ca:
New Westminster Environmental Partners will present the only encore screening of the critically acclaimed film The Age of Stupid http://www.ageofstupid.net following its premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The screening follows a ‘Green Carpet’ event that NWEP promises will be attended by politicians, environmentalists and movie stars (oh, do name names, NWEP …).]]>
The film is a “drama-documentary-animation hybrid” starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance?
The screening will take place at Douglas College’s New Westminster Campus (700 Royal Ave), room 1614 on Thursday October 22nd at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the door and can be purchased through the NWEP website at http://www.nwep.ca Pre-purchase is encouraged as seating is limited.
JMV
said "yes" to attending the event: The World Without Us.
date: November 24, 2009 07:00PM
location: The Pantry, 425 6th Street, New Westminster, Canada
description: Meetup is at the usual spot, the Pantry in New Westminster, now consistently aiming to meet on the LAST TUESDAY of every month! Hope to see you then!
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Spencer, where were you!?
Further to this discussion, at the last meetup, we reconsidered the Wednesday / Tuesday / sameday debate. In the online poll, myself, Andrea, and Dean all voted for Wednesday, and Megan selected Tuesday.
However, at the meetup, myself, Andrea, and Dean unanimously decided that in fact, Tuesday is just as good if not the better day to consistently meet, so for the future, I will aim to schedule all events on the LAST TUESDAY of the month! (New West Bookcrossing meetup doesn't usually meetup on the last week of the month; typically, the second last week, so there's not much of a conflict there, in case you wish to catch both events!)
http://www.meetup.com/bcbooks/calendar/
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bookshelves: to-read
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