Archive for July 8th, 2008

Ooh, I'm Anansi's reader of the month

Jul 08, 2008 in Me Me Me

The good people at Anansi featured me as their Anansi reader of the month. If you’re still looking for summer reading may I recommend that you pick up a book from one of Canada’s best publishers. Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game White Oleander dvdrip

Player 5150 video The Stepfather full movie is now in paperback and won the Dublin IMPACs prize.

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim (which is actually published by Anansi’s sister publishing house Groundwood) is a gorgeous graphic novel about teenage love/angst, fitting in, growing up goth. Exquisitely illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.

September Dawn movie And if you must be serious, pick up the book I mentioned at some length in my e-mail interview, Alberto Manguel’s Massey Lecture The City of Words

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Toronto in Literature: In the Skin of a Lion

Jul 08, 2008 in Toronto in Literature

I’m starting a recurring feature on this here blog excerpting representations of Toronto in literature. I’ve realized that in the last few years I’ve read quite a few books set in my adopted hometown and thought it might be interesting to show you how these fine writers have chosen to represent Hogtown.

I admit the idea was blatantly borrowed/ripped off from Dan Hill’s ridiculously smart City of Sound blog.

Without further ado. The first installment.

From In the Skin of a Lion Psycho move download Unlawful Entry dvd Batman Returns film

Inside I’m Dancing dvdrip by Michael Ondaatje:

On the Bloor Viaduct:

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The bridge goes up in a dream. It will link the east end with the centre of the city. It will carry traffic, water and electricity across the Don Valley. It will carry trains that have not been invented yet.

Night and day. Fall light. Snow light. They are always working — horses and wagons and men arriving for work on the Danforth side at the far end of the valley.

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There are over 4,000 photographs from various angles of the bridge in its time-lapse evolution. The piers sink into bedrock fifty feet below the surface through clay and shale and quicksand — 45,000 cubic yards of earth are excavated. The network of scaffolding stretches up.