In Review: The Week of June 15th

On the Blog

~ Contributors of the new anthology Locations of Grief (Wolsak and Wynn) reflect on grief, place, time, and mourning:“Grief is embodied temporal-spatially: When you grieve a person you’re also grieving a time and a place to which they were tied, and to which you can never return.”~ #ALUbookclub is BACK for another summer season—social distance-style. Find out what we’re reading from Book*hug Press and Inanna Publications and follow along with us!~ For Father’s Day, we recommend five books for dads of all kinds—whether he’s into sports, otherworldly pursuits, or just a bit of meditation, we’ve got the book for him.~ Rohinton Mistry meets Shauna Singh Baldwin, debut author Shaukat Ajmeri’s novel Keepers of the Faith (Mawenzi House) tells the story of star-crossed lovers Akbar and Rukhsana who are driven apart by a strict priesthood within their community in Udaipur, India  

Around the Web

~ Among the winners of the 2020 Trillium Book Awards is Téa Mutonji who won for her debut short story collection Shut Up You’re Pretty (Arsenal Pulp Press)~ Reading for social change: Black librarians in the US launched the original anti-racist reading list during WWII. ~ “Bubble” is the go-to word of 2020, a fitting choice for our current times.

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ICYMI (last week)

Cover Collage: Pride Month

We’re celebrating #PrideMonth with a colourful cover collage of LGBTQ+ titles–just some of the books available for 20% OFF through June on All Lit Up when you use the code PRIDE at checkout + free shipping on orders within Canada.