This week we rounded up books for two important events: CMHA Mental Health Week and Mother's Day; continued our interview series for Short Story Month, and got TCAF ready with a new graphic novel.
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~ For CMHA Mental Health Week we rounded up 10 books that speak to the struggles mental illness brings from addiction to depression to body dysmorphia and more.
~ With this coming Mother's Day we suggested books for all kinds of moms from the new mom who doesn't have the time to read a novel right now to the teenager-at-heart mom with a rebellious streak.
~ Our Short Story Month series continued with Dead Flowers (Nightwood Editions) by Alex Laidlaw who says of his collection "Narrative prose from a writer more often prone to play the typewriter as a percussion instrument."
~ Our Friday read was Alexandra Karb's harrowing personal memoir Trapped: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters (Guernica Editions), recounting the author's courageous 20-year-battle to protect her children.
~ How do you make Netflix stop guilt-prompting "Are You Still Watching?" Binge books instead.
~ But also film adaptations of books: Patrick deWitt's French Exit is getting the big screen treatment with Michelle Pfeiffer as the lead.
~ Ali Bryan's ALU favourite The Figgs is shortlisted for this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
Our staff pick this week is Kat Verhoeven's graphic novel Meat & Bone (Conundrum Press), debuting at TCAF!
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