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We've all gotten lost in a book at one time or another. But new research suggests the experience can go far beyond the page, with readers not just stepping into a character's shoes but also walking around in them.
His marriage has ended badly, his only son’s gay wedding looms awkwardly on the horizon, his only daughter has forsaken her liberal Jewish upbringing to join the Orthodox Lubavitch movement, and he feels compelled to repeatedly revisit the burned remains of his former family home in Montreal’s upscale Hampstead – a fire that the friendly neighbourhood cop thinks he may have had something to do with. All in all, though, the titular hero of B. Glen Rotchin’s second novel, Halbman Steals Home, is doing pretty well. Just don’t tell him so.
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Chuck Davis won two BC Book Prizes Saturday night for his enormous book of Vancouver history, which was finished after his death in 2010.
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Scott Thornley has won more than 150 awards for design, and his second job as writer is also on a successful trajectory. He introduced Detective Superintendent MacNeice in his first page-tuner novel, Erasing Memory, and he builds on the character development and action in The Ambitious City.
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Leo Desroches struggles through the gritty, unforgiving, crime-ridden, freezing downtown, dodging bullying security guards. He comes close to dying of the cold in a doorway. He has to take refuge in a grotty peep show movie arcade. Here’s a city where you wouldn’t want to live, let alone work. And that place is … Edmonton.
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As a child, Isha Judd didn’t understand human beings — she says she didn’t quite get things like prejudice or war, and she really wanted to change the world for the better. But when the young Australian reached early adulthood, she says she turned away from her humanitarian instincts and instead pursued a career in horse training and racing that was both competitive and very lucrative.
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Sunshine Coast author Lars Guignard has published three books on Amazon, and says he is making a good living on ebooks alone.
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Production on a Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Andre 3000 is scheduled to get underway in Ireland later this month, but the film has already hit a potentially crippling roadblock.
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Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud is among the finalists for the 15th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
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