Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot's   Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with ... Read more

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.

—Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”

I think you can hardly be a poet and a feminist (at least of my generation) without holding ... Read more

If you liked Cheryl Strayed's Oprah-approved memoir Wild, you'll want to set sail with Linda Kenyon's Sea Over Bow (Signature Editions), an epic adventure memoir that tells the story of a woman crossing the North Atlantic Ocean in a sailboat. 

That Light Feeling Under Your Feet (NeWest Press)is the personal account of author Kayla Geitzler's time spent as a gift shop associate for three consecutive years on three separate cruise ships. Varied in it's forms, the collection shape-shifts to reveal the peculiar, ... Read more

From favourite summertime reading spots to tasty nutritious meals to the start of this month's book club, this week was a mid-summer treat.

Dear reader, if you're an older-half millennial who grew up around Toronto, 1954's Hurricane Hazel was a mythic event that didn't stack up against our frequent, largely benign weather warnings. In both Jeanette Lynes'  The Small Things that End the World (Coteau Books) ... Read more

Winner of the 2017 Ken Klonsky Novella Award, Marc Labriola's debut  Dying Behaviour of Cats (Quattro Books) opens on a reclusive man – Theo Galli – about to end his life, when a hurricane hits. After finding himself with a furry (and potentially bitey) roofmate – AKA ... Read more

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, where we reflect on the sacrifices past and present Armed Forces members make, and the horrors of war inflicted on soldiers and civilians alike. For your Remembrance Day reading, we’ve rounded up 10 war books that will make you feel things.

We're not pulling out our heavy cardigans just yet, but we are gearing up for the change in seasons with our 2017 Fall Preview. Check out our book picks and what else we got up to this week.

Poet John Reibetanz's collection  Afloat (Brick Books) explores humanity's relationship to water: how we use it, are threatened by it, corrupt it, and are made whole by it. John calls our relationship with water the "natural metaphor for the reciprocal relationship between ... Read more