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            <title>Whistler Reads: A WORLD ELSEWHERE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  For Whistler Reads members, our next book discussion will be Canadian author Wayne Johnston&#039;s new novel, A World Elsewhere (RandomHouse CA 2011). Click on the link to purchase from amazon.ca for $20.56, or locals go see Dan Ellis at Armchair Books in Whistler and receive our 10% WR member discount off retail. GREAT NEWS! The author is coming to Whistler for the Whistler Readers & Writers 2011 Festival on Sunday October 16th from 10-2pm along with another award-winning Canadian author, Miriam Toews. Purchase your ticket ($35 includes breakfast) here  if you&#039;d like to attend. Check out the rest of the festival line-up here for daily blog entries promoting the program and inspiring us all to write and read. 

True confession: Wayne Johnston is the reason I created this website 9 years ago. I don&#039;t know whether to thank him or taunt him with the fact that he essentially changed the course of my life? 

It all began in Los Angeles circa April 2002.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Whistler Reads: CUTTING FOR STONE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whistler Reads members have been asking for a fun piece of popular fiction and our next book will not disappoint.  Abraham Varghese&#039;s Cutting for Stone is now out in paperback. WR members get a 10% discount off this title when they purchase at Armchair Books. "Not since Khaled Hosseini debuted with The Kite Runner has there been a novel that could and should capture the hearts of people around the world," writes Mike Sullivan. In fact the accolades from a long list of celebrated authors and reviewers tells us we are all in for a treat. Join us April 14th at Nita Lake Lodge in the library, 7-9pm. Nita has a wonderful wine list. We will pick a few to sample by the glass - cash bar. 

Join us on Thursday April 14th 7:00-9:00 at the Nita Lake Lodge (library) in Whistler. Advance tickets $15 and $20 at the door. 


Cutting for Stone takes readers from India to Ethiopia to America. The cover blurb had this to say:]]></description>
            <author>PKS</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Whistler Reads: Invited Author Round-up</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whistler Reads - the village book group - has been meeting every 8 weeks to discuss a new book since February 2005. That makes us exactly 6 years old this month. With over 30 author events under our belt we thought you might like to check our track record in picking books for the program and bringing these fresh authors to Whistler. In fact, right now, two of them, John Vaillant, The Tiger and Matthew Hooton, Deloume Road have recently won awards and are currently on the CBC Bookclub&#039;s competition for the favorite book in Canada in these categories:  Best Nonfiction, Best  of this Year, Best Fiction. Vote here and support them today! 

As far as what the rest of the authors we&#039;ve discussed are up to, here is a list chronologically. (updating as we speak!)
Dec 2010: John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival: John won the BC Award for nonfiction - Canada&#039;s largest prize, is nominated for the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction and Best Overall Book. He is currently writing his first novel, which will be an interesting departure for fans of his two award-winning nonfiction books.

Oct 2010: Kerry Madden, Harper Lee: Up Close and To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary of the publishing of TKAM.

July 2010: Matthew Hooton, Deloume Road: nominated Best Nonfiction CBC Bookies, voted Random House list of "Most Promising New Writers 2010". Presently working on his next novel which also features a child-driven narrative plot.

May 2010: Michael Pollin, Food Rules. I had no idea that Michael&#039;s sister is the actress Tracy Pollin who is married to actor Michael J. Fox. He speaks extensively (for huge fees) to groups, still teaches at Berkeley School of Journalism and will publish the next version of Food Rules fall 2011. His blog asks readers to submit their own food rules in the hopes that somebody has new catchy single sentence mantras about healthy eating that he can share. Pollin has become the figurehead for food-safety and sustainable farming practices and the stamp-out-junk-food cult.

Feb 2010: Annabel Lyon, The Golden Rule. Annabel contributed to Finding The Words, an anthology published by McLelland&Stewart used as a fundraiser for PEN Canada.

Nov 2009: David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries WR beat Vancouver&#039;s "most environmentalist mayor" Gregor Robertson (by almost a full year) to the punch when they hosted Byrne in Vancouver in October 2010 along with 2 other speakers advocating urban planning and bicycle routes. The singer-songwriter-artist Byrne continues his multimedia productivity with the Jan 20, 2011 UK premiere his film "Ride Rise Roar" simulcast across theatres in Britain and he had an important art exhibit in Tokyo.

Sep 2009]]></description>
            <author>PKS</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Whistler Reads: THE TIGER by John Vaillant</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who participated in the 31st Whistler Reads event December 11th at 7:30 PM at the Westin Resort & Spa Hotel in Whistler when our guest was Governor General award winning author John Vaillant. John&#039;s fabulous presentation was well received by a fully packed audience. For those of you who missed it, we discussed his new book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf, Canada 2010) is, in the author&#039;s own words, "The Golden Spruce with stripes".  [video presentation to follow upon editing - stop in here again later. For those of you who attended and wish to continue to support us - please use the Donate button at the top.] 

 John, of course is an intrepid traveller. He&#039;s been to 5 continents and oceans in the course of his work. This book took John  to the remote southeast of Russia to a region called Primorye (Pri-mor-ya), a territory about the size of Washington state by the Sea of Japan where ecosystems converge and plants and animals exist that live no place else on earth. It is also the last refuge for an endangered sub-species of Siberian tigers - the Amur tiger - a spectacular killing machine. Weighing up to 600 pounds and 10 feet long from nose to tail it has evolved into a supreme predator. In "Tiger" Vaillant tells of an injured man-eating tiger who is not just striking for food, it&#039;s stalking its prey out of vengeance. The team of conservationists is tracking her on foot deep into the Siberian forest on a heart-thumping chase to capture or kill her before she kills again. But who is stalking who? Beautifully written and deeply informative we learn about this unique eco-system and the people who subsist in a grueling lifestyle. Whistler Reads invited you to make this a weekend adventure. The Westin offered Whistler Reads members huge room discounts on Junior suites and threw in 2 dual mountain ski passes per day. With the large volume of snow that has fallen in December, it truly was an amazing weekend for all. In the interests of not spamming you with info, frequent posts to our FB page are a valuable resource of extra links, updates and member feedback.]]></description>
            <author>PKS</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Whistler Reads: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and the biography of Harper Lee, UP CLOSE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Join us Tuesday October 5th at 7:30 PM at the Whistler Public Library when Kerry Madden will join us on Skype Video. It has been 50 years since Harper Lee&#039;s novel,   "To Kill a Mockingbird" came out and rocked our world. The reclusive author almost never gave interviews or speeches to accept her awards, including the Pulitzer Prize she was given in 1960. She did form a lasting relationship with actor Gregory Peck who played the lead figure, Atticus Finch in the film version of her book, a character modeled on Lee&#039;s own father who was a newspaperman and former lawyer of the highest moral standard. (Gregory Peck&#039;s grandchild is named Harper Peck Voll, in tribute to Harper Lee.)  A new biography has come out on Harper Lee, written by Kerry Madden, a Professor at the University of Alabama, titled Harper Lee: Up Close. 

Harper Lee, now 86, declined to be interviewed for her biography. She feels biographies are for dead people. As Madden discovered from her ample research of Lee, who despite her age, remains incredibly active; she golfs every week claiming the walk gives her time to think, and her 90-plus year-old sister still works as an attorney in town. 

"Madden draws on extensive research—including trips to Monroeville, Ala., and interviews with classmates, colleagues and town residents—to explore how Lee’s life and times inspired her masterpiece. To Kill a Mockingbird has sold 30 million copies in 40 languages and continues to sell 10,000 copies per year, and Lee is &#039;one of the authors most read by [North]American students.&#039; ...This biography will appeal to fans of the novel and to newcomers. Readers will find a fascinating portrait of an independent young woman stubbornly going her own way to become the one thing she wanted to be: a writer. Extensive source notes and an excellent bibliography round out this superb biography, one of the best in the Up Close series." Get your copy of Harper Lee: Up Close by Kerry Madden—Kirkus Reviews

Purchase both the novel and biography  and re-visit this classic novel while learning about the author whose story shaped our views of racism and injustice. If you are in Whistler, get your copy from Armchair Books. WR members receive a 10% discount. Treat yourself to The Guardian&#039;s round-up of pics of the author.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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