In Review: The Week of January 15th

On the Blog

~ We fell in love with Toronto all over again with Julie Roorda’s literary rom-com A Thousand Consolations (Brindle & Glass) in this month’s Where in Canada.~ #BecauseIt’s2018, Jules’ Tools for Social Change starts the year with an essential feminist booklist to help us all be more intersectionally feminist readers.~ Our Indie Literary Bingo can also help with your other reading goals for 2018. Plus, bingo?~ Poet and physician Shane Neilson opens our eyes to our ableist tendencies with an essay about alcohol and ableism:”…ableism remains difficult to detect for otherwise sensitive and progressive readers.”

Around the Web

~ These literature-inspired Women’s March signs might be the best thing on the internet this week.~ Electric Literature had some fun with the The Google Arts Selfie app, pairing famous writers to their fine art doppelgangers.~ The new trend to shelves books pages-out is causing quite the debate.

What Else We’re Reading

Christen is reading Cuba Unspun from Oolichan Books as she prepares for her cycle tour in Cuba.