Shelf Talkers Posts

Shelf Talkers: Winter 2025
Can we talk about coffee for a moment?
I know, that’s not why you’re here, but, please, bear with me.
There is a movement - rapidly growing in force …

Shelf Talkers: November 2024
You can feel it in the air, can’t you?
Sure, the leaves have just turned, and we’re still getting days warm enough to venture out in just a t-shirt …

Shelf Talkers: Summer 2024
Seasonal pop quiz: what do you get when you gather more than a dozen independent booksellers from across the country in one place?
If you answered “the …

Shelf Talkers: Spring 2024
What a fantastic time of year this is!
No, I’m not talking about the coming of spring (though it seems, at least here in Victoria, that the long winter …

Shelf Talkers: February 2024
Greetings from Victoria!
I'm pleased to bring you another batch of recommendations from the booksellers of the Shelf Talkers community, the finest of Canada’s …

Shelf Talkers: November 2023
It might just be me, but I want to put it out there—is time feeling increasingly slippery for anyone else? Like, somehow it’s late October, when yesterday …

Shelf Talkers: Summer 2023
I have a confession to make: putting together this column four times a year is not only something I look forward to—it's also something I rely on.
I …

Shelf Talkers: Books to Usher Us into Summer!
There is a moment which comes around this time every year.
Curiously, we don’t know when it will come.
We don’t know what form it will take.
And, despite …

Shelf Talkers: Winter/Spring 2023
This really is the strangest time of year.
I went out for a walk yesterday afternoon – it was a gorgeous, early spring day. Clear skies, warm enough …

Shelf Talkers: Fall 2022
There’s a delightful chill to the air this morning, a soft burn in the nostrils as you inhale the smell of fallen leaves, the damp of rain on the horizon. …