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Unwrap ALU Day Six: Mountains & Woods
Today’s #unwrapALU picks are for our outdoor enthusiasts, city-livers who romanticize camping trips, and anyone whose ever attempted to go off-grid. In Susanna Pfisterer’s Fifty Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill (NeWest Press), we meet mountaineer extraordinaire Will Pfisterer, who makes mountain climbing seem like a breeze; and in Amber McMillan’s The Woods (Nightwood Editions), we get…
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Making space on the page to read our own words: Indigenous languages and Canadian Books
Author Cherie Dimaline discusses the critical importance of Indigenous languages in historically all-colonial Canadian spaces – award ceremonies, schools, and between the pages of a book.
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Unwrap ALU Day Five: Wiindigo & Cthulhu
Today marks the halfway point of our #unwrapALU picks: scary how fast time has gone by! These picks are also scary: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler’s Wrist (Kegedonce Press) features the legendary Indigenous spirit the Wiindigo, and Cthulhu is the tentacled baddie in David Neil Lee’s The Midnight Games (Wolsak & Wynn). It’d be truly monstrous if you missed out.
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Unwrap ALU Day Four: School Daze
Day four of #unwrapALU is all about the lazy, hazy drama-filled school dayz. The days of self-discovery, coming of age, and new friendships. Today’s picks bring together the unexpected friendships of our youth with Shalta Dicaire Fardin and Sarah Sahagian’s witty and spirited Good Girls (Inanna Publications) and Matthew Heiti’s The-Breakfast-Club-esque Black Dog: 4 vs the…
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Unwrap ALU Day Three: Loss
Today’s #unwrapALU picks both deal with loss, but not in the ways you would think: there’s the time-hopping protagonist Max in search of his late wife in Bill Turpin’s Max’s Folly (Guernica Editions), and zombie Phil (who’d prefer to be called “pulse-ly challenged”, thank you very much) from graphic novel Earthbound by Blonk (Pow Pow Press) who’s…
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Unwrap ALU Day Two: Battlestar Galactica & Twin Peaks
It’s our second day of #unwrapALU, where we select twenty books for twenty picky people. Today’s hyper-specific book recommendations include The Weather Insidefor the Battlestar Galactica fans on your list, and Double Teenage for the Twin Peaks binge-watchers.
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Unwrap ALU Day One: Shakespeare & Scandinavia
It’s our inaugural day of #unwrapALU, where we pick twenty books for twenty picky people. Today’s choices are both poetry, but that’s where their similarities end: one is the Scandinavian Frayed Opus for Strings and Wind Instruments and the other is the blue-hued Shakespearean Blues.
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Gift Guide Week: Michelle MacAleese
We hope you enjoyed following along with us all week as our lit experts weighed in to help get your giftlists and wishlists started. Our final recommender, Michelle MacAleese has her finger on the pulse of what’s hot in niche books and literary reads with these four all-star picks.
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Gift Guide Week: Martha Sharpe
Quick recap: we’ve tapped five members of the literary community to write these gift guides for your wishlisting pleasure. You’ll want to check out the picks of today’s recommender, bookseller Martha Sharpe of super-cool microbookstore Flying Books, because she does this already with her “choosily chosen” book flights.
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Gift Guide Week: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
It’s day three of our gift guide week, where we’ve asked lit experts from all fields of the book game to weigh in on what they’d like to give most this holiday season. Today’s recommender is Nathan Adler, who picked five (plus one!) fantastic Indigenous-authored books to give (and whose own debut Indigenous horror novel Wrist is…
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Gift Guide Week: Jael Richardson
We’re pretty stoked to have Jael Richardson, artistic director of the Festival of Literary Diversity and award-winning author, share a selection of books she’d gift this year. Her list has a recommendation for all types of literary readers, and we’re way into it.
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This Month in Lit Events: November 28-November 30th, + all of December
As everyone winds down for the holidays, so too does our literary event listings. Here’s some parties and launches going on in the throes of 2016 that you can plan ahead for. This week in lit events will be back in 2017!Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All…
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Gift Guide Week: Kate Hargreaves
We love having book designer/poet/derby champ Kate Hargreaves here on All Lit Up (exhibits A + B: her author interview and piece on Derby and body positivity), so naturally, we’re thrilled to hear which books she’d put under the tree/non-denominational plant this year.
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In Review: The Week of November 21st
Winter is around the bend, and the days are growing darker, but here at ALU we’re all lit up with anticipation of cozy nights in getting our read on. (Throw in a fireplace and some hot chocolate and our night is just about complete.)Next week we have something special in store with our Gift Guide…
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First Fiction Fridays: Nobodies
Asking that perennial question of what it means to be a nobody, Chris Gilmour’s debut collection of stories Nobodies (Now or Never) is a darkly funny look into the collective contemporary anxiety of mattering and connecting to those around us.
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