KTR2011: Alison Pick recommends The Continuum Concept

It is the second last day of our Keep Toronto Reading video extravaganza, and though your eyelids may be drooping from getting up to watch Will & Kate in the wee morning hours, I’ve got just the thing to perk you up: a video from another one of Canada’s very talented authors. Today Alison Pick recommends Jean Liedloff’s The Continuum Concept, a sociological study “that will change the way you will think about children in Western society.”

Alison Pick is the author of two books of poetry and two novels, most recently FAR TO GO. It was the winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction, was a Top 10 Book of 2010 at NOW magazine and the Toronto Star, and was published in five countries. Alison Pick lives in Toronto where she is currently at work on a memoir.

KTR2011: Nic Boshart recommends Program or Be Programmed

Welcome back to Day 32 of our Keep Toronto Reading video fest. Today I bring you a familiar face at the KIRBC, Civilians Read 2010 champ Nic Boshart. (We miss you too, Nic.) Nic wants you to read Program or Be Programmed and (bonus reco!) Learn Python the Hard Way:

Nic Boshart (@NicBoshart) is the Digital Services Manager for the Association of Canadian Publishers. He’s also co-founder and coordinating editor of the indie firm Invisible Publishing and an executive member of the CanBPA, a professional development and social group for publishers.

KTR2011: Bronwyn Kienapple recommends Must You Go?

It’s Day 31 of the extended April that is our Keep Toronto Reading campaign, and the videos are still coming! The ridiculously smart and impossibly cool Bronwyn Kienapple offers an impassioned plea for you read Antonia Fraser’s memoir of love and the lit scene Must You Go?:

Bronwyn Kienapple is the Online Marketing Coordinator at Penguin Canada and has written for EYE Weekly and Canadian Notes and Queries. She’s often raving about books on Twitter as @B_Kienapple.

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