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Who here eats organic? To what extent? Why? What got you started? We eat probably 75% organic. Because it's better for us and the planet. Also, I buy a lot of locally grown/raised meat and produce because I really like supporting local farmers. The organic store I buy from gives 70% back to...

Raise your hand if you can't believe this thing won the Booker. *raises hand* holy crap. I finished this a few weeks ago by about page 150 I realized that I was only reading in the hopes that it would be good. I finished it only because it had won the Booker and the last few books I'd read had...

Hey, just wondering if we have any other people here that make an effort to read, or even hae just happened to read, a little bit of women's studies? This is probably one of the only kind of non-fiction I read, and would love to discuss it with someone.

I finished this about an hour ago, and was actually suprised with how much I enjoyed it. Found it reminded me VERY strongly of The Joy Luck Club, but it had been long enough since I read it that it didn't really bother me. very mild spoiler really interesting to see, as it's not often...

don't know if anyone here is a fan but i am and I saw her live last night for the first time after loving her for ten years and thought I'd post a link to my photos in case anyone is interested. http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/a_sagin/my_photos ok, and I'm also insanely happy that I saw...

I'm currently reading this, am about 3/4 of the way through. It's very similar to The Historian in that it connects modern academia with medival mystery. I think maybe because I loved The Historian so much I'm seeing the similarities and being like "pshaw, this is so formulaic" but it is...

I just finished this last night. As with the last novel by Dunant I read In The Company of the Courtesan I was very taken by the characters throughout the story until the last 40 pages or so when I just got annoyed and felt let down. Not even that the ending wasn't what I wanted, because with...

What book do you wish you could read again for the first time? Myself it would be The Historian, Lolia and The Time Traveller's Wife. Anyone else?

I'm reaching the end of my book pile and despite trolling amazon and reading pretty much every post on this site, I can't think of anything I want to read next. Here's what I've read recently: The Queen's Fool Gregory, Philipa The Other Boleyn Girl Gegory, Philipa Angels and...

Sarah Waters, who wrote the Victorian romantic thrillers Affinity; Tipping the Velvet; and Fingersmith(shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange) departs from the 19th Century with this novel. Set in and after the second world war in London this book tells the stories of Helen, Julie, Kay, Viv...

Has anyone else read this? I'm about half way through it and am utterly captivated!! It's the story of a young Jewish girl is Italy during the renaissance, it's also on of "Heather's Picks" at Chapters/Indigo. I'd love to discuss it with someone!

Okay, I'm copying this from my livejournal. I just want some opinion as to what to do here. Basically, the story is this, since I started at the bank about seven months ago, my attendance has been somewhat of an issue. I understand this. There's been some crazy things going on. Basically...

So, I've spent most of my dayoff doing some research about how I'm going to distribute this years RRSP's contribs. Who here is savings for their retirement? At what age did you start? Or at what age do you plan to start? How are you going about it? How much to you save, how aggressive...

So let me tell you a story. Last weekend I speant two hours working on my Professional Development Planner. Which is something that I was scheduled to review w/ my team leader tomorrow. It focused quite extensively on getting full time hours, and being what we call a 9 rating. Well. I got a...

I'm about 480 pages into this book and it's grabbed me in a way no book has in a long time. I'm dying to talk about it! Has anyone else read it? Judging from what I've read so far, I'm finding it to be a much easier read than MacDonald's previous work, "Fall on Your Knees" which won the 2000...

Ok, so once upon a time, in a different city I picked up a book from the "new arrivals" section of the library. It was the story of a female author who was diagnosed w/ cancer and in the process of her recovery gets a job at her favourite bookstore. The author had written like 4 other books...

So I think everyone has "their" bookstore, the one that they will always remember. I'll tell you about mine! Cafe Books, downtown Canmore Alberta. I bought a TON of books when I lived in Canmore, simply because the library sucked. This store had the BEST vibe, and I loved it dearly...

hello people! I'm Allyson. I'm from Regina Saskatchewan, I've been reading probably 50-100 books a year since I was 7 years old and I'm 21. I'm a Banker, I have a wonderful wife (we're newlyweds, Go Canada) a chinchilla and I'm currently up way to late for my own good because I am rather...