Charming Monsters

A charming animated short with definite appeal to book lovers!

This was filmed at Type Books on Queen West, one of my favorite indie bookstores in Toronto. I’ll have to make the time to stop by this weekend and pick up a new book or two, to show my appreciation for them allowing the filmmakers after-hours access to the shop*!

* – I say this despite having gotten a whole new stack of lovely books for Christmas, along with an e-reader which I’m excited to try out. Good thing I also have a new bookshelf!

Torontoist has the scoop on a new bookstore opening in the College/Spadina area of Toronto in March 2010: Of Swallows, Their Deeds, & the Winter Below. Even better, it’s being structured as a collaborative project, providing the store with additional revenue by sharing space with other literary efforts in need of short-term digs or long-term corner nooks from which to operate. Their first tenant is the Toronto New School of Writing, which sounds like a fascinating project unto itself (given my recent mood, their course on The Joy (and Ethics) of Not Writing might be worth signing up for…).

On an vaguely related (well, Canadian lit scene related) note, Quill & Quire reports that Lynn Henry has been named publishing director for Doubleday Canada. Henry is currently the publisher for House of Anansi Press. I’ve really been enjoying Anansi’s output under her guidance, and it’ll be interesting to see what direction she takes in her new role.