Posted by: Cassandra Sadek - Marketing Manager, Digital Specialist, Random House of Canada

Have you ever taken a cooking class? It’s something that I would totally love to do some day - when I’m not working, reading, chasing a toddler, etc.

My super brilliant colleague Sheila Kay dropped off Bonnie Stern’s School of Cooking brochure for Winter 2010 this morning, and what to our wondering eyes should appear? A Winterlicious - Julialicious class! We thought this was so fun:

If you loved the film Julie & Julia, you must have been inspired to head right home, don your pearls and prepare Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon. After taking this delicious class, you’ll be ready to do just that, as well as create other dishes for which Julia was famous.

Take home gifts include a copy of Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France and a pound of Gay Lea butter.

Instructor: Bonnie Stern
Dates & Times: Thurs, Feb 4/10, 6:30pm to 9pm
Or Sat, Feb 6/10, 11:30am to 2pm
Or Mon, Feb 8/10, 6:30pm to 9pm
Fee: $99

Visit BonnieStern.com for more details, and bon appétit!

Posted by: Tan Light - Coordinator, Digital Sales & Marketing

On Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Jian Ghomeshi announced the 5 books and their defenders for Canada Reads 2010. Congratulations to Ann-Marie MacDonald, Nicolas Dickner, Douglas Coupland and Wayson Choy! (And Marina Endicott, who rounds out the list)

We don’t want you to miss any of the action. Here is a round-up of links to CBC’s Canada Reads content:

• Read The Canada Reads Blog and the CBC Book Club which is all about Canada Reads this month!
• You can find the CBC Book Club on Twitter too, @cbcbookclub. More twitter coverage can be found by searching #canadareads.
• Canada Reads also has a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Canada-Reads/37300206075
• Learn more about the panelists defending our books.
• And finally, be sure to enter the CBC’s weekly Canada Reads Contests

But of course, you want to know more about the books and authors being defended this year. Check out these links for interviews, excerpts and more.

Ann-Marie MacDonald
Photo © Gabor Jurina

About the Author

Interview #1

Interview #2

Canada Reads selection: Fall on Your Knees

Excerpt | Reader’s Guide

Attention Bloggers! You can include this widget for Fall on Your Knees in your Canada Reads post. Just copy and paste this code:

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Also by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Way The Crow Flies Excerpt | Reader’s Guide
Her Plays, Belle Moral and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Nicolas Dickner
Photo © Antoine Tanguay

About the Author

Video Interview

Canada Reads Selection: Nikolski

Excerpt | Reader’s Guide

Attention Bloggers! You can include this widget for Nikolski in your Canada Reads post. Just copy and paste this code:

<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://insight.randomhouse.com/widget/viewer.js’></script>
<script type=’text/javascript’>new InsightBookReader(‘preview’, ‘9780676978803’, ‘Nikolski’, ‘Nicolas%20Dickner’, ‘0’, ”, ‘http://www.booklounge.ca/cgi-bin/buy_landing.php?isbn=9780676978803’);</script>

Douglas Coupland
Photo © D.J. Weir

About the Author

Author Interview

Douglas Coupland’s Youtube Channel

Douglas Coupland’s latest book, Generation A is a kind of response/rethinking of Canada Reads selection, Generation X. It explores new ways of looking at the act of reading and storytelling in a digital world. Click here to read an excerpt

Also by Douglas Coupland
The Gum Thief
JPod
Eleanor Rigby
Hey Nostradamus!
All Families are Psychotic
Miss Wyoming

Wayson Choy
Photo © Robert Mills

About the Author

Audio Interview

In 2001, six years after publishing The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. When his heart failed him a second time, four years later, it was the strength of his bonds with the people in his life, forged through countless acts of kindness, that pulled Choy back to his life. Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.
Read from Wayson Choy’s memoir Not Yet.

Also by Wayson Choy
All That Matters - Excerpt | Reader’s Guide