Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
by McNally Robinson - Monday Jan 05 2009 10:34 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews

McNally Robinson bookclub facilitator Wendy MacDonald reviews a classic novel of the American Old West.

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The Left Hand of Darkness Optioned for Film
by Chadwick Ginther - Monday Jan 05 2009 10:05 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, movies

Screenwriter and director Will Phillips has optioned the feature film rights to Ursula K. Le Guin 's Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. The novel tells the story of Genly Ai, a human emissary to the planet Winter, a world where people are of no gender -- or both.

January / February Bookseller Now Online
by Cory Beal - Friday Jan 02 2009 1:36 pm permalink Post a comment

The January/February issue of our Newsletter, The Bookseller, is now available online. The Bookseller is for all people who enjoy books and everything about them. Events taking place in our local Winnipeg and Saskatoon stores are also highlighted. The Bookseller online is a worthy read for all booklovers.

Click here to view The Bookseller, Winnipeg.
Click here to view The Bookseller, Saskatoon.

Filaria by Brent Hayward
by Chadwick Ginther - Thursday Dec 18 2008 3:23 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy

A drug-addled boy pines for his ex; a man deserts his post as a lift operator on his 100th birthday; a girl is exiled by her father and learns more about her ancestors than she bargained for; and a fisherman searches for the god of all gods to demand why his wife is wasting away. In Brent Hayward's Filaria, each of these four characters sets out from the relative comforts of their lives into a "crumbling world".

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