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.
Whistler past the graveyard
Monday, January 18th, 2010 | 4:21 am
Canwest News Service
BOOK REVIEW
RED SNOW
By Michael Slade Penguin Canada 336 pp.; $24
Vancouver’s Michael Slade won’t be winning any gold medal of appreciation from Tourism Whistler in this Olympic year for Red Snow, the latest of his 14 slasher-whodunits.
Slade — the…
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.
The Kindle: no colour, few photos, expensive to drop
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | 1:21 pm
Canwest News Service
I’ve wanted to get my hands on Kindle ever since they were first introduced in the States a few years ago. Since some of the Canwest newspapers are now being sold for use on the Kindle through Amazon,…
Robots are the latest to invade classic works of fiction
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | 1:21 pm
Canwest News Service
TORONTO – Philadelphia-based Publisher Quirk Books has announced its next literary mash-up – this one features Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina fighting her feelings for Count Alexei Vronsky as well as an army of robots.
Android Karenina follows last year’s…
Books with feisty females offer an antidote to Ariels, Belles and Snow Whites
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | 10:42 am
Canwest News Service
There’s a princess in my house. I know she’s a princess, because she wears a purple fun-fur-and-silver-glitter tiara, changes her clothes five times a day, and issues regular commands in an imperious voice.
She’s three-and-a-half. I ask her what,…
Small children are better off reading baby books: Canadian study
Monday, January 11th, 2010 | 10:04 am
Canwest News Service
Parents shouldn’t retire baby’s first alphabet books to the bottom of the toy-box when their children hit school-age, new Canadian research reveals.
Four- and five-year-old children pay much more attention to the words in very simple alphabet books than…
Competitive online world beats in-store book prices
Monday, January 11th, 2010 | 1:20 am
Canwest News Service
OTTAWA – Holiday book buyers could have saved more than 30 per cent on their purchases if they had bought from Chapters online instead of driving to their local store.
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, for example, sells…
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