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ALU Book Club: Life after Two-Gun & Sun (Further Recommended Reading)
If June Hutton’s Two-Gun & Sun suddenly up and left your life like…whoops – that was almost a spoiler-alert! But seriously, if you’ve got a Two-Gun shaped hole in your little reader’s heart, we’ve got the follow-up reads that might just fill it.
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Do-Lit-Yourself: Book-Loving Bullet Journals
Have you heard of a Bullet Journal? The newest in twee tedium is a type of analog organizer, with tons of “page” ideas for keeping people’s lives in order (and fabulous-looking). Yours truly couldn’t resist starting one, and is sharing a couple of book page ideas for you to keep track of your reads, in…
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This Week in Lit Events: July 25-31st
If you’re in Vancouver this week, check out a production of David French’s classic play, Salt-Water Moon, at the Pacific Theatre. And relive the early 00s this week with a midnight Harry Potter event at an indie bookstore near you.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send…
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In Review: The Week of July 18th
This week went by so quickly, it feels like summer will be over before we know it. Slow down for a few minutes and catch up on all the book-ish happenings around ALU and further afield.
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Writer’s Block: Matthew Murphy
For this edition of Writer’s Block, we ask author Matthew Murphy about what he reads, who his influences are, and what he’s working on now. After being hailed as “ready for a glittering literary career” by Publisher’s Weekly for his debut, A Beckoning War (Baraka Books), we can’t wait to see what comes next.
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Poetry in Motion: Transformation & Sea Creatures
Eight years ago, inspired by the line in Karen Solie’s Modern and Normal ‘Studies show your demographic does well to take up hobbies,’ Adrienne Gruber spent four months in Mexico learning how to scuba dive and how to stop being sad. Buoyancy Control (BookThug), Adrienne’s most recent collection, was the end result of that excursion.
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ALU Book Club: Interview with June Hutton, author of Two Gun & Sun
How frequently do you wish you could ask the author of the book you’re reading questions about what’s going on? Well, we’re uniquely privileged readers here at All Lit Up, because we got to do just that with June Hutton, author of our July Book Club pick, Two-Gun & Sun (Caitlin Press)! If you listened to last week’s staff…
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Under the Cover: Book Clubs, Writers, and Readers
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey, the author of two novels from Signature Editions, is letting us in on a special author experience in today’s Under the Cover: what’s it like to go inside a book club and discuss your own work. Stella has gone to dozens of book club meetings and schools over the last few years…
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This Week in Lit Events: July 18-24th
With summer in full swing, take advantage of the long evenings and head on out to one of these great events (bonus: no capital cities edition!).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 July 11th
The summer proved to be very hot this week, just like our book club discussion! If you missed that, and other fun bookish things around the web, cozy in as we put the week in review.
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Chappy Hour: A Revolver + Whiskey Bullets
When I came across the poem “Let Go” in Garry Gottfreidson’s Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale Press), it felt as though it came right out of our ALU Book Club pick, Two-Gun & Sun, a frontier-mining story with a whiskey-loving protagonist, Miss Lila Sinclair. Gottfreidson plays with the idea of Indians and Cowboys in Whiskey Bullets and…
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Which Books Are In Our Beach Bags This Summer
Whether we’re heading to the cottage or a desert in Morocco, ALU staffers all have one thing in common this summer: we’ve all got a long list of books that we’ll be taking along with us on our summer vacations. Read on to find out our top picks (we all had a hard time narrowing…
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ALU Book Club: #teamALU talks Two-Gun & Sun (+ discussion questions)
Last week, we took an in-depth look at our July book club pick, Two-Gun & Sun. This week, we hunkered down with a not-insignificant amount of candy and discussed the book amongst ourselves – and the fruits of that conversation are available for your listening pleasure. In addition, do download our discussion questions, so that you can…
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Top 10: Literary Characters to Pack on Your Behalf
Vacations are great, right? But, oh, the packing. Either you forget a critical item (Sunscreen, perhaps? Pants, for the truly free-spirited?) or manage to haul a small caravan’s worth of stuff for a weekend out of town. Don’t fret: we’ve rounded up the ten best literary characters to pack for you. Be inspired by their…
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This Week in Lit Events: July 11-17
This week’s singular event hails from Kingston, Ontario – home of The Tragically Hip, prisons, and the wonderful Novel Idea Bookstore, where Karen Molson will be reading and signing from her latest, The Company of Crows.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including…
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