Since we're a big group of book lovers here at Cityline, we're inviting our viewers to read along with us! For our last book club pick, we read Lisa Moore's Caught (House of Anansi Press) - did you read it, too? Be sure to watch the video of our book club meeting to see what we thought of the book, and to enter for your chance to win a book prize pack courtesy of House of Anansi Press! For our latest book pick, we're heating things up with the steamy and incredibly compelling Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles (ECW Press). Once again, we hope you'll read along with us! Here's a little about the book:

Ronnie, a hairdresser with a history of recklessness, feels stifled by the predictable, comfortable life laid out before her with her live-in boyfriend. Charlie is an anxiety-ridden award-winning writer, burdened by his literary success and familial responsibility, including a bread-winning wife and a child with autism. When the unlikely pair meets, a filmic affair begins on office desks and in Toronto hotel rooms, creating a false reality that offers solace in its secrets. Two very different people, trapped by everyday expectations, take pleasure in destroying those expectations together. Their relationship, with all its differences and failings, with all its pleasure and pain, calls into question our rigid and limiting definitions of right and wrong, and what it means to be a partner, parent, lover, and human being.

We're so excited to start reading this exciting novel, and we hope you're read along with us! Want a copy? We have 5 autographed copies to give away to some lucky readers, courtesy ECW Press! To enter for your chance to win, tell us about your last great read in the comments below! Over the next six weeks, we'll be sharing tons of great features about the novel and the author, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at our office discussion of the book! So go out and grab your copy, and get reading! We can't wait to discuss with you!

Have you been reading along with the Cityline Book Club? Our staffers thoroughly enjoyed our latest book pick, Caught by Lisa Moore, and apparently, so do the awards juries! We're thrilled that Caught has recently made the shortlist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Our group had much to discuss with Moore's latest novel -- watch our book club meeting below: [embed]bcid:2732796817001[/embed] If you read Caught along with us, we want to know what you thought of the novel! Post a comment below with your thoughts on the book, and you’ll be entered to win a book prize pack courtesy of House of Anansi Press! For our next book club pick, we'll be reading Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles (ECW Press), and once again, we want you to read along with us! For more information on our latest pick, and for your chance to win a copy, click here.

Have you been reading Lisa Moore's Caught along with the Cityline Book Club? Earlier this week we chatted with Moore via Skype from her home in Newfoundland, and she graciously answered all of our book club's questions about her fantastic novel. Watch the video below and find out all about Moore's inspirations for the novel, how she got inside the head of her main character, and why she doesn't like quotation marks. [embed]bcid:2714719061001[/embed] Are you enjoying Caught so far? Share your thoughts in the comments - we can’t wait to discuss it with you. Stay tuned for a behind-the-scenes video of our book club meeting, coming up right here in the Cityline Book Club next week!

Are you reading along with the Cityline Book Club? Our latest pick is Caught by Lisa Moore, and our Cityline staffers are loving it so far! Moore's writing is as beautiful as it is engaging, and we've been burning through her pages super quickly. Want to hear an excerpt? We asked Moore to record herself reading a section of Caught - watch below to hear her reading from the opening chapter. [embed]bcid:2667889993001[/embed] Are you enjoying Caught so far? Share your thoughts in the comments! We can't wait to discuss it with you!

We hope you're reading along with the Cityline Book Club and enjoying Caught by Lisa Moore! Our Cityline team has been totally sucked in by this engaging, fast-paced novel, and several of us are clamouring to read more of Moore's previous works. To help our book club get some additional insight into Moore as a writer, we asked her 10 questions about her writing habits and favourite books. 1. What was your favourite book as a child? I loved Harriet the Spy. I loved that Harriet wrote the truth about the people she spied on because she wanted to know what it was to be human, all the different ways there are to live a life, what makes people tick. She was scathing and uncompromising in her spy journal, inadvertently hilarious. She learned to be more compassionate. Harriet learned to dig deeper when she explored the characters of those around her. I loved Harriet’s unwavering conviction that she would be a writer throughout. How dedicated she was. And I loved the New York neighborhood she explored. 2. What’s your current favourite book? I have deeply enjoyed re-reading The Wild Palms by William Faulkner. It is so full of motion. The flooded, churning Mississippi, a convict who is set free to rescue a very pregnant woman who has washed up in the branches of a tree, surrounded by dangerous currents, dead cows, destroyed houses. All this poor convict wants to do is get back to the safety of his jail cell. That’s only half the story in this slim novel. I love how Faulkner makes his sentences take on the rhythm of the action in his scenes. If the river is charging forward, unbound, crushing everything in its path, Faulkner’s sentences also rush forward, sometimes for whole paragraphs, and you can hear the turbulence of the water in his language. But he’s also very, very funny. And frighteningly dark. 3. Was there a moment when you first knew you wanted to be a writer? For me, reading and writing are almost the same thing. The suspension of disbelief, what an intense pleasure! I remember being in grade four, in the school cafeteria, eating my hot dog and half moon cake with the noise of maybe a hundred students all around me. Chairs scraping the tiles, talking, yelling, laughter, messages on the intercom, and I opened whatever book I was reading. And when I next looked up, the cafeteria had emptied out, I was the only one left. I hadn’t noticed everybody leaving. I was in the grip of whatever story I was reading. It seemed like magic to me. I knew I always wanted to be able to do that: experience the imaginary world that deeply, instantly. Be able to slip into it completely. Allow my imagination free reign. 4. What is your favourite music to write to? Philip Glass, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett. Music that ranges all over, in terms of mood and emotion. But I also like the noise of a café, or the engine of a plane, or the street noises from my neighborhood. 5. What author do you wish you could write like? I admire Anne Enright’s undiluted emotion, magnificent sentences. I love that I can hear the voice of her narrators, as if they are in the same room as me, speaking to me. I love that she writes about motherhood and sex and love, vulnerability and strength – and that it all looks brand new. She’s audacious.  I’d like to be that audacious. 6. Where is your favourite place to write? We have a very old house around the bay in Newfoundland. No running water, old wavery glass in the windows, big crab apple tree out front. The ocean is right across the road, there’s a river behind us, and a long empty field of blueberries with a couple of chairs out there. I sit out there at six in the morning, when the sun is coming up (in the summer of course!) and write in a notebook. That’s my favourite place to write. 7. What time of day do you do your best writing? Between 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. 8. What was your last great read? I am reading Thomas McGuane’s Ninety-Two in the Shade. Pretty vivid stuff. 9. What is the last book you gave as a gift? This All Happened by Michael Winter. 10. What do you do when you’re not writing? I swim in the lake, go for a run with our English Setter (who takes my wrist in his teeth or nips at my arms to keep me moving), shop for second-hand clothes (the more colourful the better), talk with my kids, cook with my husband, read, read, read! Are you enjoying Caught so far? Share your thoughts in the comments – we can’t wait to discuss it with you. Stay tuned for an exclusive recording of Moore reading a passage from the novel, coming up right here in the Cityline Book Club next week! Photo credit: Nathalie Marsh