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In Conversation With: @ChatelaineBooks Editor, Laurie Grassi
Meet Laurie Grassi—the woman behind Chatelaine's monthly online book club. With almost 4 million readers at her disposal, which books will she choose? …
Year-end Lists: Related Reading (cc: @time, @guardian, @BuzzFeed, @OttawaCitizen) #GiveCDN
Host Julie Wilson supplements the many year-end lists—TIME, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Ottawa Citizen—with some related reading suggestions.
Books: Help to Make the Season Right
Books have the potential to make everything that's wrong with Christmas right, to make gift-giving about more than acquisition and stuff.
Lousy With It: Books to Make Your Skin Crawl (by Claire Tacon)
"Ever since Susanna Moodie wrote about “those wood-demons the black-flies, sandflies and musquitoes,” Canadian writing hasn’t shied away from things …
Video: @BookMadam's Hands On Holiday Book Recommendations #GiveCDN #HolidayGift
Julie Wilson shares some of the books she'll be turning to this holiday season to get into the hands on creative spirit.
Dear Canadian Bookshelf Part 3: The Point of Reading #GiveCDN
"Could you recommend some books that will remind her that reading is a way like no other to come to know the world?"
From Sketch to Finish: Cassie McDaniel on illustrating Beto's Burrito
An illustrator on the process of getting art and words in sync
A reviewer walks into writers’ block (as in cellblock): Guest Post by Bob Armstrong
"I’ve been reviewing books and plays off and on for nearly 30 years and I haven’t always been gentle or even fair. What could I expect when I was …
Dear Canadian Bookshelf Part 2: "He only ever reads books about the war." #GiveCDN
In which we ease young Derek's holiday shopping burden.
Roughing It In the Books, or Everybody Dies in the End: Guest Post by Melanie Masterson
Of course it isn't true that everybody dies, but it feels like it sometimes, and it makes a much better subtitle than "Trees and Rocks and Rocks and Trees." …