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I went to go see Wall-E with Alison and Nadia on Saturday night. And we were pretty impressed by it. Also, he’s a pretty loveable character. Oh Wall-E.

Funny enough, the best romantic performance of the summer is delivered by an animated robot that has a resemblance to the robot from Short Circuit.

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Good friends Coach House Books just got a nice cheque (and a nice feather in the cap) from the Government of Ontario. The publishers won the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts!

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Over the year, CHB has been the launchpad for authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels and they keep publishing amazing work (the uTOpia series, Darren O’Donnell’s plays, Claudia Dey’s work, etc.).

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A few weeks ago I wrote a little post on what I was reading this summer. Well, all those long commutes up to Don Mills and a little bit of discipline on my part means I’ve gotten through a lot of those books I mentioned.

Also, I got a few great looking galleys at Book Expo, so these will have to be added to the pile of things I’m reading. So without further ado. The sequel:

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Fiction:

The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano (A lot of post-humous praise for Bolano. His works are finally appearing in English)

The Man Game, Lee Henderson (I’ve been looking forward to this for years!)

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If any of you out there are looking for book recommendations this summer please ask. I’ll try my best to give you a few appropriate recommendations. You know how to find me.

Us nerdy book types can’t get a break. An article in the New York Observer (which I found via Gawker) talks about young and lonely publishing types who peacock on the subway using galleys (that’s advance proof copies for all you non-publishing types).

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“If you’re reading a galley on the subway, and someone comes to talk to you, you’re going to share a lot of things in common with them,” said Tom Meaney, the former literary editor of The

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Of course the article ends with this comedown of a line:

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Meanwhile, Ali Heifetz, an editorial assistant at Norton, said that while she has never been moved to approach someone based on the galley they were reading, she would not rule it out. “If and when [I saw] a cute dude reading a galley on the train,” she said, “he would be more attractive to me than same dude not reading a galley. Bat*21 ipod

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Over the weekend I had a chance to hang out at Book Expo Canada. I also got a chance to meet two of my favourite authors Lee Henderson and Joseph Boyden.

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Both men have novels coming out in the Fall. Henderson’s is a long-awaited novel set in 19th-century Vancouver that involves the great Vancouver fire, and naked lumberjack wrestling. Boyden’s is a ‘sequel’ to the amazing war novel Three Day Road The Big Blue buy .

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OK, the real purpose of this post…. both these men are quite studly. And my friend Alexis agrees that Boyden is a dreamboat (also, a very charming guy). Sorry ladies, he’s taken.  Henderson may or may not be single, we never got to that line of questioning.

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So, if we were to create a hypothetical calendar of cute male Canadian authors who’d be on the list? Who’d heat up those cold February weekends? Whose hand do you want to hold while walking through the park in early spring? Which poet/playwright/novelist would you want to spend those romantic summer evenings with? The lines are open.

Oh, if any publisher or other group (I’m looking at you Quill and Quire!) decides to do hot authors of Canada calendar, I want a cut. Or if you do a hot women authors of Canada edition, I’d like an invite to the launch party. I’m not hard to please.

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