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  • In Review: The Week of September 2nd

    In Review: The Week of September 2nd

    This week fall was out in full force at ALU HQ with reading recommendations to take you into the new season, staff picks, and hot new releases for the weekend.

  • Weekend Reads: Hot New Releases

    Weekend Reads: Hot New Releases

    After the first week of back-to-school hustle, you deserve a break! Head into the weekend with one of these recommended reads that are so hot off the presses, it’ll feel like July all over again.

  • Fall Preview 2019: ALU Staff Picks

    Fall Preview 2019: ALU Staff Picks

    We’re staving off our end-of-summer woes to look ahead to one of our favourite times of year: fall books season. Check out what some of us at All Lit Up are putting at the top of our TBR piles this fall.

  • Three Books to Read Before the Summer is Over

    Three Books to Read Before the Summer is Over

    Warm up your fall reading lists with our pick of three great reads to sneak in before the summer is officially up.

  • Under the Cover: The Mother Goose Letters

    Under the Cover: The Mother Goose Letters

    We can all probably remember at least one of the classic Mother Goose stories from childhood. But don’t be mistaken: these ain’t your grammy’s fairy tales. Karen Clavelle’s The Mother Goose Letters(At Bay Press) is a retelling that sees these classic characters and stories as they migrate to a more contemporary time and place on…

  • Beautiful Books: The Bears Sleep at Last

    Beautiful Books: The Bears Sleep at Last

    Illustrator Lynn Scurfield joins us to discuss her cover art for The Bears Sleep at Last (Playwrights Canada Press) by Genevieve Billett. Read on for our interview with Lynn where she shares more about working to preserving the right amount of mystery in the book’s design and finding a way to incorporate elements of the play’s…

  • In Review: The Week of August 26

    In Review: The Week of August 26

    This week we turned great flicks into reading tips, lined our shelves with a few books to keep the fun going after finishing our August Book Club read, got cozy with a quiz to start our fall TBR’s and more.

  • Poetry in Motion: Scott Nolan’s Moon Was a Feather

    Poetry in Motion: Scott Nolan’s Moon Was a Feather

    Songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist Scott Nolan hasn’t just written a collection of poems. The pieces in Moon Was a Feather are love songs to the city of Winnipeg, written while walking its streets, and inspired by a need to reconcile the unpredictable nature of life and fate. Read an excerpt from the collection below, and…

  • Quiz: Find Your Next Fall Read

    Quiz: Find Your Next Fall Read

    Pumpkin spice is now officially in the air and while the temperature has only dropped about one degree, you KNOW we’re already planning our fall TBRs. Take our quick fall quiz to find the perfect book to add to your own must-read pile.

  • ALU Book Club: Further Reading After Bad Ideas

    ALU Book Club: Further Reading After Bad Ideas

    Our August Book Club reading of Missy Marston’s Bad Ideas is almost at an end, but before we wrap things up, we want to leave you with a few similar recommendations that are sure to skyrocket you into some great reading.

  • Watch This, Read That: Summer Edition

    Watch This, Read That: Summer Edition

    While summer might be coming to an end, we’ve still got some time left before we watch the credits roll! We’ve put together a few book recommendations to check out before/after watching some of the season’s hottest flicks. 

  • In Review: The Week of August 19th

    In Review: The Week of August 19th

    This week we interviewed Missy Marston, author of our #alubookclub pick Bad Ideas (ECW Press), recommended a follow-up read to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and shared poems and a debut short story collection. Also, ASMR is becoming official. Scroll on for that and more.

  • First Fiction Friday: Nosy White Woman

    First Fiction Friday: Nosy White Woman

    End your week worry-free with Martha Wilson’s Nosy White Woman, a collection of short stories that takes a compassionate and witty look at ordinary life that will assure you: whatever your woe, you’re not alone.  

  • If You Liked X, Read Y: Adventure Edition

    If You Liked X, Read Y: Adventure Edition

    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. 

  • ALU Book Club: Interview with Missy Marston

    ALU Book Club: Interview with Missy Marston

    If you checked out our ALU book club discussion on Bad Ideas, you know that we had a lot to say about the book’s vivid cast of characters and setting, which we felt perfectly captured life in small-town Ontario. Now, we’re taking it straight to the source in this interview with author Missy Marston to…

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