Posted on 06 February 2013. Tags: Above All Things, Anne Carson, Audrey Niffenegger, Autobiography of Red, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Charlotte Bronte, Diana Gabaldon, Emily Bronte, Emily Giffin, Haley Tanner, Helen Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Outlander, Pride and Prejudice, Rachel Joyce, Recommended Reading, Still Life with Woodpecker, Tanis Rideout, the time traveler's wife, The Unlikley Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Tom Robbins, Vaclav and Lena, Valentine's Day, Where We Belong, Wuthering Heights
Random House Loves Love! We here at Random House read a lot of books. Sometimes we read books about the apocalypse, we plunge into fiction, we love memoirs and sometimes we even venture into erotica. Whatever the genre, many of the books we read involve some sort of romantic element. Instead of just [...]
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Posted on 15 November 2012. Tags: Alan Bradley, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Cheryl Strayed, Christmas, Cloud Atlas, gifts, Gretchen Rubin, karen thompson walker, Rachel Joyce, Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, will schwalbe, wishlist
There are so many gift guides out there that give you suggestions for what to buy for other people. But sometimes the real problem is answering the question: “What do you want for Christmas?” I don’t know about you, but I always draw a blank–and it’s by no means because I have everything. So we [...]
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Posted on 18 August 2012. Tags: Charles Duhigg, Cloud Atlas, Covers, David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, John Irving, Karen Armstrong, Katherine Boo, Life of Pi, PD James, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Vincent Lam, Yann Martel
We love looking at book covers. And it’s really interesting to see how different countries approach the cover design for the same books. We’ve put our Canadian covers beside covers from the US or UK in the slideshow below. Let us know which ones are your favourites.
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Posted on 09 August 2012. Tags: Book Club, Fiction, Helen Simonson, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Chapters-Indigo | Amazon To be completely honest, I didn’t think I would enjoy The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. A book about an old man walking across England to deliver a letter to a former coworker who is dying of cancer didn’t seem like something I could relate [...]
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