The Science of Storytelling
The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsread more
View ArticleBabble Book Club: People Park by Pasha Malla
Next reading selection will be Pasha Malla's People Park, an apocalyptic and dizzying multiple narrative tale about isolation and displacement set in an unnamed island city.read more
View ArticleHistory of India: Any book suggestions?
My brother is moving to India in a few months. Can any one suggest a good history book of the country and region, ideally from a post-colonial or left perspective?Cheers!
View ArticleFight the Right...A Manual For Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse...
I picked this thing up about a week ago and I keep reading it rapaciously... I realize that there are those here who hate Kinsella with a passion for his shots that he's taken at the NDP...(The book is...
View ArticleFight the Right...A Manual For Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse...
I picked this thing up about a week ago and I keep reading it rapaciously... I realize that there are those here who hate Kinsella with a passion for his shots that he's taken at the NDP...(The book is...
View ArticleA Sticky Situation for 2013 Canada Reads
From Random House's Hazlitt Magazine and by Ben McNally, a pretty interesting piece on Canada Reads but the trouble that is spells and has spelled for Douglas and McIntrye.One of the more appalling...
View ArticleLiterary Feuds of 2012; Pulitzer Prize jury name-clearing
So I'm reading Page Turner's Literary Feuds of 2012, which I originally thought would be a bit cheeky and fun, if not gossip-y read, and has turned more into in depth research about all the moments...
View ArticleBabble Book Club: Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Babble Book Club's newest selection is Cool Water by Dianne Warren, an interwoven story about the inhabitants of a fictional Saskatchewan town. Warren has described this novel as her life's work as it...
View ArticleCanada Reads: Is anyone here actually watching?
Has anyone been watching Canada Reads?I watched yesterday as a form of social experiment, I guess, and found it not as awful as was thinking, but still quite ... strange.I know it is not everyone's...
View ArticleBabble Book Club: Straphanger by Taras Grescoe
After voting polls and some hard decisions, we have our newest selection of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe.From our Bound but not Gagged blog...
View ArticleBabble Book Club: 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
Babble Book Club's newest selection is Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe!From the Bound but not Gagged blog post:Things Fall Apart describes the story of Okonkwo and his family and their struggle to...
View ArticleIts Earth Week! What are your book/article/movie suggestions for all the...
It's Earth Week!We thought a fun way to get the conversation going around the environmental issues and outlying factors presented by Earth Week would be to have babblers list their favourite...
View ArticleBook recommendations?
So, this is a bit personally loaded as a thread, that is, it was created out of a personal bias.BUT, I've noticed that in my reading lately, it has all had a sort of depressing slant to it, and well,...
View Articlebabble book club discussion with Richard Van Camp on 'Godless but Loyal to...
[babble book club author discussion with Richard Van Camp takes place within this thread. Please post comments and questions below! Author discussion is Friday June 28 2pm EST]Hey all you lovely...
View ArticleWomen in the arts: where they at?
CWILA annual reviewers count is coming up to reveal the amount of women writers out there present and working.Last year's exposed that women are underrpresented: no way.read more
View ArticleAlice Munro puts down her pen
...to let the world inAccepting a literary prize in Toronto last month, Alice Munro, the acclaimed short-story writer — “our Chekhov,” as Cynthia Ozick has called her — winner of the Man Booker...
View Articlebabble book club: Graphic Novel double feature
The official selection is finally in and it is the graphic novel double feature we quickly discussed!We will be reading It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken by Seth and Fun Home: A family tragicomic...
View ArticleFavourite books you love to hate
Going through my goodreads (I know, but I like it) got to wondering what are books that either you love or others love that are hated by either you or the others.More clearly:you love = others...
View Articlebabble book club: 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' by Steven Galloway
Our next book club selection is The Cellist of Sarajevoby Canadian author Steven Galloway and the final discussion will be on Friday September 20 at 2pm EST on this thread.Check out the books blog post...
View Articlebabble book club final discussion of 'Something Fierce' by Carmen Aguirre
babble book club's new selection is Something Fierce: Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughterby Carmen Aguirre. The final discussion will be Friday November 1 at 2 p.m. EST on this thread!Something Fierce...
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