
Lit City kicked off with Toronto’s 175th anniversary party, held in early March. Hmm, don't know why that escaped mention on my blog!

This show runs until June 13th. I am going to make sure that I get over to see it and will let you know all about it when I do.
Find out more about specific events being held as part of Lit City by going here: What's On @ Lit City.
Someone has put together a list of 57 books which are set in the City of Toronto. You can see the list here. There are some well known writers as well as some I have not heard of. Michael Ondaatje of course and Margret Atwood as well, but my favourite, Michael Redhill wrote Consolation which is a tremendous read and set in Toronto - in fact in two different times in history! I enjoyed reading Consolation last year when it was picked as Toronto's "one read" book during reading month. There are a lot of local Toronto places mentioned both in the 1960s and in the 1850s, the two time periods of the novel.
The Lit City Event runs until May 24th when the grand finale – the Doors Open tour is held. Doors Open connects these books to specific buildings all open to the public on that one weekend. I will talk about the Doors Open event on a subsequent blog as it deserves its own white space - there are a lot of buildings on to be open and I would like to talk about a few of them. In any event, you should mark it on your calendar if you are in Toronto that weekend.