In Review: The Week of August 26

On the Blog

~We put together a few book recommendations to check out before/after watching some of the season’s hottest flicks.~We wrapped up our August book club with a few other reads that capture the laughs, love and small-town vibes to keep you reading after finishing Missy Marston’s Bad Ideas.~We embraced the arrival of pumpkin spice everything and started our seasonal TBR list with this cozy fall quiz.~Songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist Scott Nolan shared his love of Winnipeg through poetry and song with his collection Moon Was a Feather.

Around the Web

The internet celebrated the great Mary Shelley, who would have been 222 years old yesterday. While revered for her novel Frankenstein, she also wrote a lesser-known post-apocalyptic plague novel.Reading gets a re-vamp amid fears (not ones we share!) about the death of books.How the Choose Your Own Adventure stories that many of us loved as kids are finding new popularity among today’s readers.

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