Who knew it was "wildly popular vampire fiction writers recommend Suzanne Collins" day

Who knew it was wildly-popular-vampire-fiction-writers-recommend-Suzanne-Collins-day? (Thanks @ScholasticCda for the snappy title)

Both Stephenie Meyer (Twilight books) and Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood books) have recommended Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series today. Just FYI - No vampires in The Hunger Games. ;)


From Stephenie Meyer's website:
I also got an early look at a book I've been eagerly awaiting: Catching Fire, the sequel to Suzanne Collins' phenomenal The Hunger Games. It not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them. It's just as exciting as The Hunger Games, but even more gut wrenching, because you already know these characters, you've already suffered with them. Suzanne takes the story places I wasn't expecting, and she's never afraid to take it to very hard places. Stunning. You won't sleep when you're reading this one. It hits shelves September 1st. I suggest beginning in the early morning and clearing your calendar for the day.


From Charlaine Harris' website:
People have been talking about Suzanne Collins’s THE HUNGER GAMES, and with good reason. It’s classified as a YA novel, but there’s plenty here to keep adults interested, I can testify. In Collins’s world, a post-apocalyptic America, teen children are harvested from each of twelve districts every year to participate in the Hunger Games. Food is primary source of concern in Panem, scarce and doled out by the government. Whoever wins the Hunger Games gets food for himself/herself and the family for life. How do you win? By killing all the other contestants. It’s very like “Survivor,” but for real. A different venue with a different landscape is picked each year, and the government throws in different twists to affect the outcome: torrential rain, the drying up of water sources, planted explosives, etc. Katniss and Peetya, the teens who are chosen from the coal-producing region, are at a great disadvantage, but due to Katniss’s cleverness they contrive to have an edge. This is a great book, and very thought-provoking. Read this along with your teen and discuss it.

Author Reading - Soren Bondrup-Nielsen

Soren Bondrup-Nielsen was born in Denmark and at thirteen immigrated to Canada with his family. He is currently a professor in the Biology Department at Acadia University where he teaches Ecology and Conservation Biology he is author of A Sound Like Water Dripping: In Search of the Boreal Owl and a memoir, Winter On Diamond.will be reading from his new book August 27, 2009 at 4pm.

From the Publisher:
With enthusiasm and sincerity biologist Soren Bondrup-Nielsen recalls his experience as a graduate student in the 1970s researching the Boreal Owl in northern Ontario and Alberta. After receiving his B.Sc. in the spring of 1974, Bondrup-Nielsen travels by train to Kapuskasing to begin his study of this tiny, elusive species, cousin to the Tengmalm’s Owl of Scandinavia. Though initially dissuaded by his supervisor, the author sets about recording the owl’s call and locating individual territories. On cross-country skis, pulling a toboggan of supplies, Bondrup-Nielsen begins his first field season with reason for optimism, recording two distinct calls and being struck in the head by a male Boreal within his first week.

And this is why I like my Paper books!!

This morning while drinking my morning java and browsing the new issue of Maclean's Magazine, I came across an interesting article in the "Good News / Bad News" section. It was about how Amazon.com went in to its customers Kindle accounts and simply deleted 2 books from their customers accounts.

You can read the article below;

Big Brother.com

Hard to know which is more alarming:Amazon.com's willingness to flout the privacy of people using its Kindle electronic readers, or its imperviousness to irony. The world's biggest online bookseller floored Kindle users when a major publisher changed its mind about allowing an electronic edition of two of its books to go out. Numerous copies had already been sold, so Amazon simply went into its customers' Kindle accounts, electronically deleted the books and credited the customners with refunds. The titles in question? 1984 and Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
Maclean's Aug 3rd, 2009

Author Signing July 29 2:30-4:30

Paul Schultz will be signing copies of his book The Fuhrer Virus on July 29 from 2:30-4:30.
Set during the summer of 1941, this is the story of a conspiracy hatched by a cabal of German officers and their American supporters to secretly infect Adolf Hitler with a virus that will render the Nazi dictator comatose for a crucial period of weeks.

Will Ferguson knows who we are!!!

From CBC BookClub Live Chat with Will Ferguson author of Why I Hate Canadians, Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present, Happiness, Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw and Spanish Fly to name a few.


3:55
[Comment From Chat Noir Books]
Do you find yourself hunted and hounded by people who didn't/don't get "Why I Hate Canadians"?
3:55
Will Ferguson: Chat Noir? In New Liskeard?/
3:56
[Comment From Chat Noir Books]
yeah ;)
3:57
Will Ferguson:

One of the great things about being Canadian is that we live in one of the few countries in the world (Australia would be another possible one) where a book titled "Why I Hate Them" is assumed to be tongue-in-cheek. With Canada, it was sort of like titling a book "Why I Hate Bambi's Mother."/

3:59
Will Ferguson: I should explain. I lived in New Liskeard when I was with Canada World Youth. (Actually, in Haileybury with Candy Keith and Graham Gambles. I was volunteering at the agricultural college.)/



OKAY - Seriously, that is pretty cool. Will Ferguson knows who we are!!!

Joseph Boyden in Toro magazine

There's a great interview with our favourite author crush Joseph Boyden (I admit some of us here may be more smitten with his lovely wife Amanda) in Toro magazine.

Order of Canada

Jay Ingram host of Daily Planet and author of several books including Daily Planet Book Of Cool Ideas has been appointed to the Order of Canada. Congratulations!
http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5815