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title: "Literary Round-up"
description: "A lot of interesting things happened in the literary sphere this week, but the commentary was relatively quiet or perhaps I was distracted by my birthday celebrations. This post is also lacking..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2005/11/20/literary-round-up/
date: 2005-11-20
modified: 2005-11-20
author: "Monique"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
type: post
lang: en
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# Literary Round-up

A lot of interesting things happened in the literary sphere this week, but the commentary was relatively quiet or perhaps I was distracted by my birthday celebrations. This post is also lacking commentary because I’m cleaning up the pad for my pending birthday guests.

(http://blogs.raincoast.com/index.php/weblog/raincoast_books_launches_first_podcast/)

(http://www.reviewcanada.ca/hundredbooks.html), which included 6 royal commission reports and the 1863 Geological Survey of Canada. Atwood, Cohen and Findley are listed, as is Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie.

(http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=15121&tag=somisguided-20&creative=330641&path=ASIN/0771011784/qid=1117503655/sr=8-11/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i11_xgl14) have, according to a CBC report on The National, increased by 2000%

(http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=287&pid=503908), one of the most beautiful illustrated books I’ve seen in a long time, won the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature, Illustration. Don’t judge it just on the cover, which I think is the weakest part.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire premiered this weekend with apparently 9750 engagements in North America. I attended a 10 pm showing at the Dunbar Theatre in Vancouver. There was full-on audience participation. Wooing when the main characters first appeared on screen. Clapping. Gasps of breath. Snickering and tsk tsking over Ron and Harry’s pissing match. It was great.