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In Review: The Week of May 6th

This week we rounded up books for two important events: CMHA Mental Health Week and Mother’s Day; continued our interview series for Short Story Month, and got TCAF ready with a new graphic novel.

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~ For CMHA Mental Health Week we rounded up 10 books that speak to the struggles mental illness brings from addiction to depression to body dysmorphia and more.~ With this coming Mother’s Day we suggested books for all kinds of moms from the new mom who doesn’t have the time to read a novel right now to the teenager-at-heart mom with a rebellious streak.~ Our Short Story Month series continued with Dead Flowers (Nightwood Editions) by Alex Laidlaw who says of his collection “Narrative prose from a writer more often prone to play the typewriter as a percussion instrument.”~ Our Friday read was Alexandra Karb’s harrowing personal memoir Trapped: A Mother’s Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters (Guernica Editions), recounting the author’s courageous 20-year-battle to protect her children.

Around the Web

~ How do you make Netflix stop guilt-prompting “Are You Still Watching?” Binge books instead. 

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~ But also film adaptations of books: French Exit is getting the big screen treatment with Michelle Pfeiffer as the lead.~ Ali Bryan’s The Figgs is shortlisted for this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

What Else We’re Reading

Our staff pick this week is Kat Verhoeven’s graphic novel Meat & Bone (Conundrum Press), debuting at TCAF!

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