
- It as summer here last week… this week? Who knows! Life in the North Atlantic! But at least we can read the greatest summer novels of all time;
- Booker longlist is coming tonight!;
- Let’s focus on some good news from the pandemic;
- Penguin Classics tackles SciFi (I’m fascinated by the premise of The Hair-Carpet Weavers — a series of words in a row I never pictured myself writing);
- Let’s take a close look at Tom Hanks’ bookshelf;
- WLUP launches podcast for eggheads;
- Son of a Trickster is coming to a CBC series and it looks pretty good;
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is getting a new HBO adaptation;
- Warren Ellis dropped by DC from Batman comic (listen for the howl of trolls in the background);
- Internet Archive is asking for publishers to drop their suit;
- Dune is getting a new book series to catch everyone up to the start of the movie that’s coming from Canadian director Denis Villeneuve;
- Indigo is donating 1% of kids book sales to projects for kids in high-needs Canadian communities;