BEST OF THE BLOG 2021

The stars have aligned with our bookshelves to bring you reading recommendations based (sort of) on your zodiac sign. 

Have you ever wondered about who made that book in your hands or the one on your screen? All books are not created equal.

Get to know the people behind your books—#ReadUp on our fiercely independent, creative literary presses below.

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We can't count our age on one hand anymore: All Lit Up turns six today! To commemorate our birthday, we're counting to six with a look back on six of our favourite moments on the blog AND six + six books we loved this year (+ discounts & a contest!). 

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This week we bid farewell to our ALU summer book club with four follow-up reads, got a little Off/Kilter, shared reflections from Indigenous authors, and more!

If you loved our August Book Club read Seeds and Other Stories by Ursula Pflug, we've got a few recommendations to keep the last vestiges of your summer full of the fantastical.

This week includes author interviews, books recommendations for all kinds of summer moods, book picks for armchair travel in the time of quarantine, and more!

One of the highlights of book club is going straight to the source: this week we electronically sat down with the inimitable Ursula Pflug, author of Seeds and Other Stories (Inanna Publications), to chat about dreams, alternate realities, surrealist influences, and more. ... Read more

We've got a roundup of five books for all kinds of summer reading tastes—from a page-turning action-adventure to the "Fast Car" of novels to a queer slice-of-life drama, our book recommendations will fit all of your summer reading moods. 

This week we bookclubbed, completed another Read Harder Challenge, chatted with authors, and more!

Not even quarantine life or Zoom hiccups could stop us from serving up our annual summer book club with a discussion of Ursula Pflug's fantastical and magical collection of short stories Seeds and Other Stories (Inanna Publications). Read on for the spoiler-filled highlights ... Read more