Book Review A Taxonomy of Love #AudibleBookClub Live Stream and Twitter Chat! Sponsored Welcome to the #AudibleBookClub live stream and twitter chat. We’re thrilled to have Rachael Allen, author of A Taxonomy of Love joining us for our discussion live and on location in Toronto! We’re going to dive into her motivations, what inspired her characters, and anything else that By Lainey • Mar 20, 2018 12:18 pm
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 3 - December 28, 2017 If you’ve been visiting this site a while you know my love of YA books. One of my favourite YA books, Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun is being adapted into a movie for Warner Bros and Jandy is writing the screenplay herself. Sarah just wrote By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:59 pm
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 2 - December 28, 2017 Recently, Madeleine Thien won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, honouring the best in Canadian literature, for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. The book was also shortlisted for the Man Booker. Last month, Madeleine wrote about the writer’s life in Maclean’s; it’s a perspective that I By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:59 pm
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 1 - December 28, 2017 Over the last few years, Hollywood has been challenged to address its diversity problem. For far too long, the majority of the stories told in film and television have been about white men for white men. And those are the same stories that are critically better received and then repeatedly By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:58 pm
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup - June 24, 2016 A deep dive to recommend if you haven’t already: Barry Avrich is a Canadian filmmaker who was trying a few years ago to put together an unauthorised documentary about Harvey Weinstein. According to Barry, Harvey Weinstein wasn’t exactly supportive. Barry details the experience in his new book Moguls, By Lainey • Jun 24, 2016 03:36 pm
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup – March 4, 2016 I recommend reading a book called All Out by Emmy Award-winning journalist Kevin Newman and his son Alex Newman. It’s a joint memoir about their relationship. About how Kevin’s own struggle with self-confidence and feelings of inadequacy as a man affected how he parented Alex. About how Alex’ By Lainey • Mar 04, 2016 04:09 pm
Book Review The Year Of Yes Released Shonda Rhimes’ first book, The Year of Yes, comes out today. I wrote earlier this year that I thought the press related to the book would be delicious. Some of the juiciest bits are from this NPR interview and include: - Shonda pointing out that of course she has help By Duana • Nov 10, 2015 01:03 pm
Book Review Smutty Book Roudup – October 9, 2015 A couple of years ago I blogged about my obsession with writer couples: Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer. Click here for a refresher. Jonathan Safran Foer you know, likely from Everything Is Illuminated. Have you read Krauss’s The By Lainey • Oct 09, 2015 04:10 pm
Book Review Luckiest Girl Alive I first saw Luckiest Girl Alive on Reese Witherspoon’s Instagram feed, and I knew that she was obviously going to buy the book’s film rights – would she be promoting it otherwise? Tracy Flick knows what she’s doing. So when I found myself on a 5-hour flight, I By Maria • Jul 30, 2015 04:48 pm
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup – July 17, 2015 Grey, the book. You read it? Click here if you missed Maria’s review. I’ve stopped at 20%. Which means it’s worse than Fifty Shades Of Grey because at least with that one, I actually made it through the whole thing. You could argue that for Fifty Shades By Lainey • Jul 17, 2015 04:17 pm
Book Review Grey is Beige Yesterday, Lainey wrote about the #AskELJames hashtag hijacking (click here for a refresher) and, having read the book, I can understand where (and who) those tweets are coming from. People like me who spent $11.99 on Grey. I'll start with the bad and get to the worse By Maria • Jun 30, 2015 12:30 pm
Book Review Trillium Book Award Nominee Readings happening tomorrow! -Sponsored- I read Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress last year. You don’t need me to tell you that it’s great. She’s always great. What I loved about Stone Mattress though is that it didn’t feel like I was reading. It felt like I was remembering old By Lainey • Jun 15, 2015 09:49 am
Book Review In The Unlikely Event review Spoilers everywhere – come back if you haven’t finished. You know, usually I am not afraid of endings. Usually I am the one who says things like “I’d rather something end well, early, than go on too long”. I am unsentimental, not because I’m heartless, but because usually, By Duana • Jun 08, 2015 03:18 pm
Book Review In The Unlikely Event It’s a momentous day. There hasn’t been a day like this in almost 20 years. Today, Judy Blume releases her new book, In The Unlikely Event. I know a lot of you feel the way Lainey and I feel about that. That Judy Blume ushered you through your By Duana • Jun 02, 2015 11:25 am
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup – May 22, 2015 Buzzfeed posted a photo on Twitter the other day that made me hug myself. The Khaleesi and Neville Longbottom! It came from Matthew Lewis’s Instagram.They’re working together on Me Before You which, presumably, is the film adaptation of Jojo Moyes’s novel of the same name. I By Lainey • May 22, 2015 05:07 pm
Book Review Smutty Book Roundup – April 24, 2015 Yesterday (over afternoon tea at The Langham – because what else do you talk about over finger sandwiches?), Lorella and I exchanged anecdotes about our favourite subject: Elvis. This is one of the bonds of our friendship. Years ago we discovered that we both went through a period of Elvis Obsession By Lainey • May 22, 2015 04:46 pm
