Gail Bowen will be in our Winnipeg bookstore, Saturday May 8, 2:00 pm.

Gail Bowen -- Night Table Recommendations

For over thirty years, I led three lives: I was first, a wife, parent and grandparent; second, an academic, and third, a writer. By the time I'd finished with Walter, the Farting Dog (a book which, as the owner of a farting dog, I highly recommend); reviewed whatever was new, hot and student-friendly in Canadian lit and met my own writing deadlines, I didn't have much time to read the way I read when I was a kid - with passion and without plan.

Two years ago, I retired from university teaching. Since then, I've been making up for lost time. Here are some books that I've read and loved within the last month.

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McNally Robinson is back on its feet and we have been helped up by you, our readers.
Thank you for your flowers, cards, letters, emails of encouragement and goodwill.

Thank you for coming into our stores this past week in record numbers.

It was an overwhelming groundswell of support which made a difficult time endurable.

So thank you Winnipeg. Thank you Saskatoon. You have always been the most generous and supportive of communities. Thank goodness we are part of you and you are part of us.

Holly McNally

Denare Beach author, Myrna Guymer, has been awarded the Canadian Science Writers' 2008 Science in Society Journalism Award in the children's book category for her book The Canadian Shield Alphabet. Guymer attended the gala awards event in Sudbury Saturday, May 23 to accept the certificate and $1,000.

Internationally renowned and award winning Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer will be spending two months (June and July) as the very first Writer In Residence at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron (CLS) here in Saskatoon and will be the very first Writer in Residence at a Synchrotron anywhere in the world. He will be doing a reading and signing of his newest novel, Wake, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon at 7:30 pm on June 4.

His newest novel Wake, the first book in a trilogy about the spontaneous emergence of consciousness by the world wide web launched in April and at the end of April it was announced that a television series based on his 1999 novel Flashforward will premiere on ABC in the Fall. Robert took some time out of his extremely busy schedule to answer a few questions about his Writer in Residency, Wake and Flashforward.

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