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18 Jul North Beach nostalgia

Posted at 21:45h in Bibliophilia, Culture, Travel, Writing 0 Comments

When I was teenager, a guy on the 61 Sooke bus gave me a copy of Jack Kerouac’s Desolation Angels....

16 Feb Cheating on my paperbacks

Posted at 20:34h in Bibliophilia 0 Comments

Dear readers, I have a confession to make: I bought an e-reader....

17 Jan Books are the best

Posted at 21:40h in Bibliophilia, Culture 0 Comments

Type Books - an awesome Toronto bookstore - features in this neat-o video that's gone viral over the past week...

26 Sep Word! On the Street

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So I finally made it out to Word on the Street, Toronto's outdoor book festival. Being a WOTS virgin, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect....

20 Aug My summer of CanLit

Posted at 09:18h in Bibliophilia, Writing 0 Comments

Where is the line between book nerd and full-blown reading addict? I'm not sure at what point exactly I crossed said line, but it must have been some time ago. Decades, even. ...

15 Jul Reading over your shoulder

Posted at 11:03h in Bibliophilia, Digital Ramblings 0 Comments

Blogging has broken down many of the previously cherished barriers between public and private, and now it seems that a reader's right to privacy is, alas, no more....

19 Mar In which I read The Sentimentalists

Posted at 11:28h in Bibliophilia, Writing 0 Comments

I approached The Sentimentalists with some trepidation. This slim first novel by Johanna Skibsrud has been so much discussed ...

28 Jan Winter reading

Posted at 18:31h in Bibliophilia, Writing 0 Comments

Surviving winter in Ontario is arduous. Short, grey days punctuated by bone-chilling nights. Skin dry and cracked like the surface of the frozen lake. Salt caked on boots, pants and dog paws....