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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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ALU Book Club: Zolitude Discussion
Last week, you met July book club pick Zolitude by Paige Cooper, and heard what Biblioasis editor John Metcalf had to say about the collection. This week, it’s Team ALU’s turn in the saddle: we commiserate over what we loved about this book, and even end up reading some of our favourite parts aloud. Download our…
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Top 10: Stranger-than-Fiction Fiction
There is an art to taking the real and fictionalizing it: whether it’s the life of an extraordinary historical figure or one’s own ancestry, the following ten novels have at least a kernel of reality in their otherwise make-believe narratives.
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If You Liked x, Read y: Video Games Edition
You’ve raided a billion dungeons and you’re at Paragon Level 200 in Diablo III. You’ve collected every last moon in Super Mario Odyssey. You’ve won countless rounds of Fortnite. At some point, you need to put down a screen, maybe pick up a book. Welp, if you love yourself some video games AND some Canadian…
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In Review: The Week of July 2nd
This week we kicked off #ALUbookclub with an apocalyptic short story collection, shared our summer reads, and cheered for the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlist!
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First Fiction Friday: The Higher the Monkey Climbs
Bruce Geddes’ The Higher the Monkey Climbs (Now or Never Publishing) finds middle-aged Richard McKitrick in a murder-mystery not of his own making. After his cousin Tony convinces him that his father’s death was no accident, Richard begins to question the past in a new light.
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Summer Reads: ALU Edition
Equally sizzling to this summer heat are six staff book picks for reading into the sunset (at the park, by the lake, in the backyard, etc.). Check out what we’re pairing with our sunscreen this summer!
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ALU Book Club: Intro to Zolitude
We kick off our 2018 edition of the All Lit Up Book Club with Paige Cooper’s incredible collection of stories, Zolitude (Biblioasis)!
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Poetry in Motion: Reanimations of Catullus in Goodbye Horses
Gaius Valerius Catullus is arguably one of the most infamous ancient Latin poets, but also very much an enigma—even his death is shrouded in mystery. Nathaniel G. Moore’s new collection Goodbye Horses (Mansfield Press) revives Catullus’ remaining poems painting a vibrant picture of a candid poet and hopeless romantic.
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Cover Collage: Forests
Happy day-after-Canada Day! Whether you’re traipsing through a forest near you or just stuck at work dreaming about it, we’ve rounded up seven forested covers for your viewing pleasure.
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In Review: The Week of June 25th
This week we looked ahead to summer adventures, jotted down seafood recipes for backyard parties, and continued to celebrate Pride Month with a colourful reading list.
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First Fiction Friday: Mama’s Boy
We love a good anti-hero, but especially hard-to-love is the self-centred Mama’s Boy, the titular character from David Goudreault’s debut Mama’s Boy (Book*hug, translated from the French by JC Sutcliffe). Though born and raised in pitiable circumstances, Mama’s Boy proves himself rather unwilling to rise from them.
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Test Kitchen: Pasta-the Seafood
Summer and seafood go hand-in-hand. That’s why we bring you two fintastic seafood pasta recipes from Joan Over’s The Newfoundland and Labrador Seafood Cookbook(Breakwater Books), a collection of traditional seafood dishes of the region and Over’s own creations, to share at your next summertime soiree.
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Do-Lit-Yourself: Have a Summer Literary Adventure!
The weather is finally nice, so why not set out on a major – or minor – literary adventure? We’ve come up with three kinds of bookish adventures you could do in the next hour, day, or three weeks (there is no in-between).
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Beautiful Books: One Good Thing
Since we first saw it, we’ve swooned over the psychedelic, poster- and Northwest Territories-inspired cover of Rebecca Hendry’s One Good Thing (Brindle & Glass). Lucky us – cover designer Tree Abraham indulged our design-nerd inclinations and answered our questions about this stunner.
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Pride Month Reading
For Pride Month we asked journalist, author, and LGBTQ refugee activist Ahmad Danny Ramadan for some of his top book picks for Pride reading.
Got any book recommendations?