KTR2011: Richard Crouse recommends Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By , on March 31st, 2011

We’ve come to Day 4 of our month-long book reco-party in support of Keep Toronto Reading, and the recos keep rolling in. Today I bring you Richard Crouse, a man who knows a lot about books and film, so really he was the perfect person to contribute to this campaign (and he and Terry Fallis are neck and neck for the best radio voice on this site). Richard took some time out of his busy schedule to recommend Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for CTV’s Canada AM and the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, At the Movies, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and its sequel Son of the [...]

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KTR2011: Charlotte Ashley recommends A Gentle Madness

By , on March 30th, 2011

All KIRBCers are a little mad for books, and on our second Day 3 video in support of Keep Toronto Reading, blogger and bookseller Charlotte Ashley offers the perfect recommendation to fuel the flames of our unabashed bibliophilia, Nicholas Basbanes’ A Gentle Madness. Check it out:

Charlotte Ashley is a Toronto bookseller who works out of the Bob Miller Book Room.  She blogs at http://charlotteashley.wordpress.com and in 2009 won the inaugural National Book Collecting Contest.  When she’s not obsessing over books, she’s knitting, gaming, and trying to raise smaller readers to some day take her place.

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Show us a little bit of your gentle madness with a video book reco! Email me for info.

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Keep Toronto Reading 2011

By , on March 16th, 2011

I love the Toronto library. I do. We’ve been going steady about three years now, and if I still doodled in notebooks, you might see JK + TPL in the margins. We have a great relationship, after all. With 99 branches, it’s always there when I need it. I ask for things, and like a generous lover, it grants them. It surprises me with special treats, like free AGO passes and visits from marquee authors (last year’s Rushdie event was a gold star occasion). But before I get all couch-jumpy Tom Cruise on you, suffice to say, the TPL is one of this city’s great treasures.

They also run a pretty fine marketing campaign, and this year their Keep Toronto Reading campaign is back. It’s a multi-faceted campaign that combines extra author events, a city-wide book club (this year reading Judy Fong Bates’s Midnight at the Dragon Cafe), and a book recommending network that includes travelling journals, twitter recos, and YouTube recommendations. This year they’ve got a new theme, and they want recos for a book that transformed you in some way.

Since book recommending (especially on video) is kind of our bag, I thought we could help them out last [...]

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