Monniblog

You already know I have a problem. My TBR Pile would crush me to death if it fell over. And it seems that 2013 isn’t helping the pile…

Armchair Books in Whistler:

• Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
• Inside by Alix Ohlin

SFU bookstore (some sale items):

• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• The Woefield Poulty Collective by Susan Juby
• The Plight House by Jason Hrivnak
• Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature
• Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
• The Canadian Press Stylebook
• The Canadian Press Caps & Spelling

BMV Bookstore in Toronto:

• Griffin & Sabine by Nick Banock
• The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

ABC Books & Comics – closing sale in Vancouver:

• Lord John’s Private Matters by Diana Gabaldon
• Hard Core Logo by Michael Turner
• Hood by Emma Donoghue

Won by answering weekly trivia in my Publishing class:

• Beyond Belfast by Will Ferguson (Question: Who won the Giller this year?)
• The Ice Passage by Brian Payton (Question: What is the left-hand page of a book called?)
• The Surface of Meaning by Robert Bringhurst (Question: What is ‘coated stock’?)

Chapters/Indigo:

• Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Book Warehouse (now owned by Black Bond Books):

• Malarky by Anakana Schofield (Currently reading, it was on my nightstand and didn’t get photographed)