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Raincoast books giveaway
POSTED February 25, 2010 BY Bob Kronbauer
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Our friends at Raincoast Books have given us some Vancouver-themed books to give away! “The Winter Olympics” published by Mountaineers Books is a 250 page comprehensive look inside at “the legends, the lore and the Games, Lonely Planet’s Vancouver Encounter is a pocket-sized 176 page guide to the city complete with a map and City Walks: Vancouver is like a deck of playing cards with “50 adventures on foot”!
We’ve got one of each of these in the permanent V.I.A. book collection (slowly building it up with awesomeness!) and you can have a chance at winning all three simply by posting a comment below. Comment on what your favourite book about Vancouver is and be entered in the draw!
February 25th, 2010 at 11:39 am
City of Glass by Doug Coupland, or Building The West by Donald Luxton.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Probably the Man Game by Lee Henderson. Old timey Vancouver!
February 25th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I’ll have to agree with the guys above me and say any coupland book (which includes a reference to our lovely city) is my favourite. I would also include however, the moleskin city travel book, which is a notebook including maps and sections for recording/remembering anything and everything about Vancouver.
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February 25th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy because it takes place in my neighbourhood of Chinatown/Strathcona.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Jeannette, I’m reading that book RIGHT NOW! Just finished Not Yet, and the Jade Peony is one of my favourite books ever.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I remember driving through van as a kid from a small town (Prince Rupert) and being awed by the tall buildings downtown and the bridges.
Vancouver’s been home for 6+ years now, and I’m still awed riding over the Georgia Viaduct into the heart of downtown to get home. Vancouver In Focus: The City’s Built Form (Mike Chadwick) depicts this.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Best hikes and walks of southwestern British Columbia – my handy dandy guide to get me out into the mountains.
and yea, Hey Nostradamus is a good read too
February 25th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I’ve enjoyed The Historical Atlas of Vancouver by Derek Hayes. Great maps and history not just of the City but the Lower Mainland too.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park is my favourite Vancouver book. Taylor uses the foodie scene of ths city to explore how Vancouver is trying to emerge between tradition and transnationalism, culture versus commerce, local versus worldy. It also tangentially touches upon the undeniable presence of homelessness/mental health issues in our city, and Taylor handles this topic with respect and grace.
A different genre– Jason Turner’s comics and graphic novels. He got nominated for a One Book One Vancouver award for True Loves. I was stunned to find out that Jason Turner’s my neighbour! It’s just so interesting to “see” Vancouver in Turner’s 2D version. You can identify the place markers, but it feels alien at the same time.
City of Glass has already been mentioned, but Coupland’s Life After God has some insightful short stories where characters interact with Vancouver landscape. Admittedly more North Shore than actual Vancouver though. There’s a scene set in Capilano dam that made me revisit the place just to see what he was talking about.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Favourite book FEATURING Vancouver would hafta be Spook Country by William Gibson, I love his description of the “usual” places we’ve all been to and taken for granted.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
100 mile diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon!
February 25th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
City of Glass by Douglas Coupland
February 25th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Not about Vancouver exactly, but I love the references to Lionsgate City in Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn trilogy.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor was wonderful. An interesting (fictional) look into the restaurant trade and the hidden side of our famous park.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Hope in Shadows by Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome for highlighting some of the amazing and creative people that live in Vancouver
February 25th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Definitely ‘Vancouver Cooks 2′ by Chef’s Table Society of British Columbia!
February 25th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Definitely “Vancouver: A Visual History” or “The Great Vancouver Book” — I’m a pushover for anything that helps me better understand how this awesome city has come to be!
February 25th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Vancouver Nightmare by Erik Wilson
February 25th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I have to keep on the Coupland train and say City of Glass… and though it’s not really -about- Vancouver, I love the North/West Van tidbits in most of his other books, especially Eleanor Rigby.
February 25th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
how cute are those city walk playing cards?
February 25th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
“why i love Vancouver”
February 25th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
City Walks. I like the playing cards.
February 25th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I love those little playing cards!! How awesome would that be for a ‘coffee table’ book!
February 25th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Great book about urban planning and Vancouver history.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
I have to agree with #13 City of Glass by Douglas Coupland was great!
February 25th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
City of Glass. No other book as great in my humble opinion.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:53 am
Douglas Coupland’s City of Glass
February 26th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Is it kind of silly that I already own the City Walks cards AND a Lonely Planet book about Vancouver? My favourite Vancouver book is definitely City of Glass.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
I’ll always love the children’s book “Putting up with Mitchell” by Sarah Ellis. Somehow it manages to encapsulate everything I loved about growing up here.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Hmm… I should probably name most Coupland books, and I just got City of Glass from my boyfriends father over the holidays in preparation for my move to the city a few weeks ago from the Eastern Time Zone… but I haven’t read it yet…
So I’ll have to go with Vancouver Matters. Great book… Really beautiful…
February 28th, 2010 at 2:14 am
City of Glass by Douglas Coupland.
February 28th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I dont really know.. thats why I want ‘em books
but the closest that includes Vancouver I think is Jade Peony by Wayson Choy..
March 1st, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I like the book
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Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver, by Daniel Francis
March 1st, 2010 at 4:20 pm
The Jade Peony was one of the only books compulsory in high school that I ever re-read again as an adult. Beautiful book!