Chelsea Handler’s newest book “reads like an XXX-rated Judy Blume diary entry – natural, scandalous, cheeky, the makings of a true page-turner.”
Books
Diana O’Neill: Chelsea-Chelsea, bang-bang. Too hot to Handler?
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | 11:22 am
Read All Over: Embracing the Wide Sky
Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | 9:53 am
“Tammet has a high-functioning form of autism, and was recently diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome – which he and the scientists who study him, believe was triggered by the combination of his autism and his childhood epileptic seizures.”
Read All Over: Game Change
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 | 9:00 am
HBO is already working on producing a movie adaptation, based on this behind-the-scenes look at the 2008 presidential election from the mouths of the candidates and their respective camps.
Read All Over: The Art of Conversation
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 | 10:00 am
Kelowna.com welcomes Diana O’Neill who will be filing Read All Over columns alongside Natalie Johal.
Read All Over: Fall On Your Knees
Monday, January 4th, 2010 | 8:04 am
By Natalie Johal
After a somewhat sluggish start, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s 1996 debut novel Fall On Your Knees gained international recognition thanks to—who else?—Oprah Winfrey. One of just two official Oprah book club selections in 2002, Fall on Your Knees became worldwide…
Read All Over: The Jade Peony
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | 7:14 am
“The Jade Peony metamorphosed from a short story written and submitted in a UBC creative writing class taught by now-famous Canadian writer, Carol Shields, in 1977.”
Read All Over: Generation X
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | 12:02 pm
By Natalie Johal
British Columbia’s own Douglas Coupland first appeared on the literary scene nearly 20 years ago with the release of his debut novel, Generation X. Today, still bright and relevant, Generation X has been announced as one of the CBC’s Canada Reads…
Read All Over: The Wild Things
Monday, December 14th, 2009 | 9:38 am
By Natalie Johal
Since his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Dave Eggers has stood out as one of today’s most gifted storytellers. It came as no surprise, then, that Maurice Sendak, author…
Okanagan proclaims its first poet laureate
Monday, December 14th, 2009 | 9:31 am
Contributed
The Okanagan Institute has declared a unique Citizen’s Proclamation bestowing the honour of “Poet Laureate of the Okanagan” on John Lent.
When William Makepeace Thackeray wrote, “The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar…


