My mother made a “take your pants off” sangria for my sister’s wedding shower many years ago and filled up a plastic punch bowl with her concoction. Not being much of a drinking woman, I was more focused on the fact that my mother could have presented this master blend in a far more inviting way.
Steven Price’s new novel is By Gaslight. London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men’s futures - a man of smoke.
According to Wikipedia, there are nine books that have sold more than 100 million copies. Actually, the Bible, the Qu’ran, and Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book are all over a billion copies, but I can’t think of any way that including those three books is going to work out well for me, so we’re sticking with these.
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
There are always new and exciting listings in Prince Edward County. Below, we’ve posted updates to our guidebook that have occurred since the book went to print, so you can continue to be on the forefront of all that the county has to offer.
Q: Where did the idea for Eleanor Oliphant come from?
Ever wonder what goes into creating a book cover? We sat down with one of our book designers, Jennifer Griffiths, to talk about her creative process and one cover in particular that’s become an in-house favourite around here—Joanne Proulx’s We All Love the Beautiful Girls.
Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony, Emmy, Obie, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress. Her first book, Dear Mr. You, was published last year.
Mary-Louise Parker (MLP): I was struck by the way your memoir begins with an idealistic view of love. You describe your relationship with your soon-to-be husband as a kind of fairy-tale romance. But that vision of love—not to give too much away—doesn’t bear out. Did writing the book (and reliving it in a sense) affect the way you look at your expectations of love?
The relationship between an author and his or her editor and/or publisher is a special one. When picking up a book off the shelf we often don’t think about the countless hours the two spend together, making revisions and debating about the novel’s inner world. One such relationship is especially fascinating around here, that of Salman Rushdie and his longtime Canadian editor and publisher Louise Dennys.
may love seize you
may the mountain pass always be open
may you continue to carry cases of champagne in the night streets
may you always know the company of animals, and sing to the cows and the crows
may you always read in bed with the ones you love most
may the flash of lightining illuminate a wild joy in your face even in the shipwreck
