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5 Questions with author James Frey It all started with a simple goal: create an “experience.” After all is said and done however Endgame, the much anticipated new YA series by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, may be the most ambitious multimedia experiment ever attempted in publishing. Based...

Inspired by the real-life tale of folk legend Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who disguised herself as “Lyons Wakeman” and enlisted with the Union Army during the civil war, NEVERHOME is Laird Hunt’s enthralling return to historical fiction. We caught up with the burgeoning superstar to talk about fictionalizing history...

There are restaurants these days that serve something they call the pairing menu. Wines and food are linked so that one gets the right white wine with the fish and a suitably robust red wine with the meat. It gets more subtle than that, of course, but...

In a medium defined by its hyper-nichification, Bryan Lee O’Malley is one of the few graphic novelists to have truly found a place in the mainstream. Born in London, Ontario, but raised on Japanese manga and indie rock, the L.A. based O’Malley defined a generation with his Scott...

Reading on devices may help parents stop the “summer slide”A recent study from a University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) scholar, shows that eReading on tablets may help increase both motivation and reading comprehension among children in middle school who are learning to read...

The Kobo Glo has been a Kobo fan favourite since it launched. Many of our readers like the Kobo Glo for an obvious reason – it keeps the pages of their eBook lite up for easier reading. Most recently, TopTenREVIEWS tested it out and named it one of...

OFFICIAL RULES SPONSORED BY Rakuten Kobo Inc., 135 Liberty St. Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M6K 1A7 (the "Sponsor").No purchase necessary to participate in the Contest or receive prizes. CONTEST PERIOD Kobo’s Read More! Read Anywhere! Survey (the “Contest”) submission begins on July 22, 2014 at 10:00:00 a.m...

9 books on everybody’s wish list this seasonWhether romance, mystery, non-fiction, or thriller, nothing goes better with the beach than a great summer read. It’s a tradition as old as the backyard BBQ cookout, a custom celebrated since the dawn of the cottage cocktail. It’s summer reading. And...

Today we say goodbye to an icon.Born Archibald Andrews (1941), “Archie” as he was known to loved ones, was just 17 years old when he was gunned down trying to protect his friend—controversial U.S. Senator Kevin Keller—in a shooting that authorities are calling a hate crime.While details surrounding...

For the last 31 days, The World Cup has dominated the public consciousness. With the top national squads fighting it out for global supremacy and nearly a billion people watching worldwide, no one has been safe from the gravitational pull of the games.Not even readers.To investigate the “World...