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New Digi Project: Shelf Portraits

*Flourish*
Yes ladies and gents, boys and girls, the Society for the Promotion of Keepin’ It Real has a new project. It’s a simple lil thing, born of my own curiosity about people’s book collections. The spark might have come from the excellent bookshelves tumblr, which offers plenty of eye candy for the bookworm, but I [...]

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The Giller Shortlist

It’s that time of year again, and the Giller Prize shortlist was released today. The 5 who survived the cut:
• Kim Echlin, The Disappeared, Hamish Hamilton Canada
• Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean, Random House of Canada
• Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man, Random House of Canada
• Colin McAdam, Fall, Hamish Hamilton Canada
• Anne Michaels, The Winter [...]

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My new toy

I think there are a lot of bookish nerds with wanna-be writer complexes who have a bit of a typewriter fetish. Okay, I may be the only one . . . but if anyone was going to appreciate my early birthday present from my majorly kick-ass BF it’s you bookish folk. So here she be, [...]

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