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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Where in Canada: Toronto Love
Julie Roorda’s A Thousand Consolations (Brindle & Glass Publishing) is a literary rom-com that walks the eclectic streets of Toronto from Roncesvalles Village to Dupont Street to York University following Paula, a candle-making widow and Hector, a three-fingered pianist on the run from Mexican drug lords.
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This Week in Lit Events: January 15-21st
If you live in southern Ontario or Victoria and love reading series, you’re in luck! Check out our literary listings for this week and get your January poetry and fiction on.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to…
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In Review: The Week of January 8th
The week we cheered about the Canada Reads longlist, learned more about book-binding a la publisher Biblioasis, and tried two cocktail recipes.
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If You Liked x, Read y: Police Violence Edition
Angie Thomas’ groundbreaking novel The Hate U Give made all kinds of best-of lists last year, and with good reason: her nuanced portrayal of a black teen caught between two worlds when her friend is gunned down by a police officer struck a chord, especially with a North America that’s seemed a little more 1958 than 2018…
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Surveying the Great Divide: Our Environmental Impact in Photographs
On the heels of Canada’s 150th anniversary, the publication of Surveying the Great Divide (Caitlin Press) by prolific historian Jay Sherwood comes at an appropriate time. Commemorating an important project that occurred a century ago in which surveyors risked their lives to document the boundary between Alberta and BC, the book serves as a photographic…
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Chappy Hour: Portside & Starboard Martinis + Cosmic Fishing
ALU resident mixologist Tan is back for 2018 with a double-dose of nautical cocktail recipes for those “indecisive” among us, not least poet Jaymz Bee and song lyrics “Indesicive” from Cosmic Fishing, his latest book from Insomniac Press. Pick the Portside or Starboard (or flip a coin if decisiveness eludes you) and read from this earnest…
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In House: Inside the Biblioasis Book-Binding Party
Biblioasis is a classic passion-project-turned-success story: after operating as a bookstore for several years in Windsor, Ontario, Publisher Dan Wells took a leap and began publishing in 2004. Now it’s hailed among Canada’s prestigious small presses with a dedicated staff — lovingly referred to as bibliocreatures — who bring rad new books into the literary world…
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This Week in Lit Events: January 8-14th
It’s a new year in literary events: if your resolution was to see more amazing readings, launches, &c. this new year, start here with our listings.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to be included…
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In Review: The Week of January 1st
This week we welcomed the new year with our backs to 2017 and reading resolutions that are as good as carved in stone (ie: on the internet).
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Cover Collage – Turning our “Backs” on 2017
Fully embracing the “New Year, New Us” maxim that comes with the proverbial throwing our old dayplanners in the garbage, we’re turning our backs on the year we (mostly!) wish there weren’t with eight back-tastic book covers.
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2018 ALU Bookish Resolutions
It’s tradition at ALU to make bookish resolutions at the start of each year, and we’re back with more for 2018. Check out our reading resolutions below.
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Test Kitchen: Snowballs from Rock Recipes Christmas
Picture this: you’re tasked with making a holiday treat for your office or party, but you know there are some dietary-restricted folks and you don’t have a ton of time the night before. Enter the Newfoundland Snowball – a delicious dessert recipe in Barry C. Parsons’ Rock Recipes Christmas (Breakwater Books) that will make everyone happy.
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Chappy Hour: Mulled Cider and Maunder
Our resident drinkspert Tan is back with a family-friendly mulled cider recipe to go with Claire Kelly’s Maunder (Palimpsest Press), a suite of poems meditating on the nature of walking. We’re going to take Claire’s advice and “bed down ’til spring,” and enjoy this non-alcoholic, hot holiday sipper after our own wintry maunders.
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Do Lit Yourself: Book Wrapping Tips for the Holidays
After Bingemas, we’re sure you’ve got books to wrap up for a lucky gift recipient somewhere: we have three ideas as to how you might do it in this do-lit-yourself.
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In Review: The Week of December 11th
It’s our last In Review of the year and we wanted to express our sincerest thanks for following along with our bookish exploits and adventures. Happy holidays from everyone at All Lit Up, and we hope to see you back here in 2018!
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