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.
~ 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.
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~ How do you make Netflix stop guilt-prompting "Are You Still Watching?"
Binge books instead.