In Review: The Week of February 3rd

On the Blog

~ Author Laura Tretheway takes us out to sea in The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea(Goose Lane Editions), exploring the compelling stories of people across the world and their relationships with the ocean to give a broader picture of its importance, its future, and its fate.~ Author M.C. Joudrey shares his experience with the National Network for Equitable Library Service to bring his novel Fanonymous into braille (At Bay Press) in order to serve a marginalized readership: “Being able to connect with a wider audience has not only been rewarding but also—as in this case—worth so much more to me than I could have imagined.”~ Designer Jared Shapiro discusses the creative choices that went into designing nathan dueck’s pop-culturally influenced book of poetry, A Very Special Episode (Wolsak and Wynn): “Fonts are curious and intriguing things in that the best ones are often the ones you don’t notice.” ~ For #Fridayreads we take a look at Michelle Kaeser’s debut novel The Towers of Babylon (Freehand Books), which combines the all-too-real millennial struggles of Girls and the sibling dynamics of This Is Us with sharp-witted humour and shrewd insight that’s all its own

Around the Web

~ CBC Books’ list of 47 Canadian fiction books to watch for this spring includes lots of ALU faves~ After widespread criticism in the US, Barnes & Noble pulled a new series of “culturally diverse” classic book covers from stores.~ The intersection between books and fashion is this look book from Louis Vuitton in which models are protagonists in their own novels.

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ICYMI (last week)

Throughout 2020 our very own ALU staffer Tan Light is participating in Book Riot’s #ReadHarderChallenge. Follow along as we roll out challenges and follow-up reads all year!First challenge: Read a book in any genre by an Indigenous author