Books in 140 Seconds: Barnheart

By , on April 19th, 2012

Grab your granny and swing her round, because it’s time for the monthly hoedown we like to call Books in 140 Seconds. Keeping with the theme of Gardening, Farming and Food month here at KIRBC, Erin and I took on twenty-something farmer Jenna Woginrich’s memoir, Barnheart. Check it out:

For more on Jenna and her farming life, I’d highly recommend you check out her excellent blog, Cold Antler Farm.

If we haven’t run off to start a farm and buy a goat, Books in 140 Seconds will be back next month, when we’ll share some mad love for Heather Birrell’s Mad Hope.

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Books in 140 Seconds: Trauma Farm

By , on December 1st, 2011

Welcome back to another edition of Books in 140 Seconds! Last time we talked about small town Quebec, but this time we’re getting more rural, with a return to the country across the country. Watch as we sing the praises of Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm:

I’m building an ultimate literary farm crawl in my head now. It’d start with Lilac Hill, then onto Trauma Farm, and maybe onto Cold Antler Farm . . . More on Trauma Farm to come, by the way, with a post I started writing on Thanksgiving. I’m sure it will be ready any month now.

Next time on Books in 140 Seconds, we’re going to bat for an unforgettable debut novel, Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding.

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KTR2011: Bronwyn Kienapple recommends Must You Go?

By , on April 27th, 2011

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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