It's March. Do you know what we do in March? We party. Literary style. So much is happening on the Canadian music scene this month. CBC is hosting a month-long Hip Hop Summit. Canadian Music Week is this month....
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The CBC Book Club is proud to present our first ever Bookies Awards. Since it's a brand new venture we asked you to help with the categories. Here's how things are going to roll out this month... Tomorrow and...
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Maybe you're cracking the spine of a good book you got over the holidays and reading by a nice warm fire or radiator. Or perhaps you're actually relishing the outdoor activities that come with snow and colder weather. Or...maybe...
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I grew up in the middle of the woods. Our next door neighbours were a five-minute walk away and the first time I was in a city (I was five years old), I marvelled at the houses lining the...
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This month it's all about Young Adult fiction in the Book Club. I first read what are now called YA books when books aimed at teens were still filed under "Fiction for Young People." In high school, I devoured...
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This month the spotlight is on political thrillers, and as usual we want your recommendations. It's a genre I haven't dipped into for a while. Be sure to send your favourite thriller reads our way! Growing up, I read...
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Reading is changing. This July, Amazon.com reported that e-books for the Kindle outnumbered sales for hardcover books, selling 140 e-books for every 100 copies in hardcover during the second quarter of 2010 — and the number is increasing. As...
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Ah, those long August nights. It's the perfect time to lay low and enjoy summer's last gasp. And what better way to relax than to hit the air-conditioned movie theatre with a bag of popcorn and a nice cold...
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July in Canada means long days of sun and soaking up every minute of a season that is gone all too soon. At the CBC Book Club, July also means short stories. Join us as we celebrate the art...
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Olé, olé, olé, olé.... The FIFA World Cup 2010 runs June 11 to July 11 in South Africa, and all this month, the Book Club is getting into the spirit of this huge sporting event -- 32 countries, 31 days...
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There's something about Jane! It's been more than two centuries since Jane Austen first put pen to paper and took on the task of skewering the social customs and calamities of the privileged classes in Regency England. Remarkably, Austen is...
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Spring is in the air and the Book Club is putting on some music to celebrate! All month long, we're going to be talking to authors and musicians who write about music -- whether in fiction, memoir, biography or other...
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Selected as the winner of Canada Reads 2010, Nikolski is a gorgeous, entrancing examination of the invisible connections that tie us to people who might seem to be strangers, and the ways in which fate intervenes to shape our...
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We're talking about children's and young adult lit this month. Hannah has a shout-out for our monthly Top 10 list. Look for a live chat, featured authors and other exciting celebrations, events and contests....
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Whether it's going to out a farmer's market for the fall harvest, or getting ready for the Thanksgiving turkey, October is a month when food is on our minds. To mark this, The CBC Book Club is taking a month-long...
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FlashForward , Robert Sawyer's 11th novel, was inspired by a high school reunion. Upon rejoining his classmates 20 years after graduation, Sawyer realized that and his friends all had very different lives from the ones they imagined as teenagers....
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Louise Penny's The Murder Stone is a gripping manor-house mystery, complete with family dramas, class tensions and a gentlemanly detective. Penny's fourth novel completes a seasonal cycle that began with the wintry Still Life(2006). The first three mysteries take...
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Will Ferguson's award-winning travel memoir Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw blows away the old assumption that Canadian history is boring. The bestselling author begins with the bold declaration, "Canada is not a country, but a collection of outposts," and...
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Skim is a stunning debut graphic novel created from the collaboration of two cousins — Toronto writer Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Jillian Tamaki, originally from Calgary and now based in New York. Skim takes us into the world of Kimberly...
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On July 31, 2001, Howard Engel picked up the morning newspaper from his doorstep to find it read like a mixture of Serbo-Croatian and Korean. He thought it was a joke, but the entire paper looked like Cyrillic script,...
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tells the story of Aminata Diallo, an African girl abducted into slavery and taken to the American South in the mid-1700s. Determined, resourceful and resilient, Aminata survives decades of bondage and crippling losses with her indomitable spirit intact. The...
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