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In Review: The Week of January 8th
The week we cheered about the Canada Reads longlist, learned more about book-binding a la publisher Biblioasis, and tried two cocktail recipes.Â
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~ Read our In House feature with Biblioasis to find out why “JONNY GET OUT OF THE PRODUCTION OFFICE” was uttered during the publisher’s book-binding party. ~ We get nautical with two cocktail recipes paired perfectly with Jaymz Bee’s breezy poetry collection, Cosmic Fishing (Insomniac Press) in this month’s Chappy Hour.~ Jay Sherwood’s Surveying the Great Divide (Caitlin Press) was a stark photographic reminder about the environmental impact we’ve had since 1917.~ We found your follow up to Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give: The Making of St. Jerome by Marie Beath Badian (Playwrights Canada Press).
Around the Web
~ This year’s Canada Reads longlist included a solid choice of indie books: Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks (NeWest Press); The Clothesline Swing by Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Nightwood Editions); Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez (Arsenal Pulp Press); Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press); and Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books). ~ Buzzfeed compiled a list of 15 tips and tricks to read more books.~ A shipwreck discovery points to evidence that even notorious pirate Blackbeard may have curled up with a good book.
What Else We’re Reading
With the same sharp wit and quirky friend dynamics of Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers, Julie Roorda’s literary rom-com A Thousand Consolations (Brindle & Glass) tells two intertwined love stories and manages to be funny despite refugee politics and narcoterrorism.
