Alina and Shawn chat about The Colony by Audrey Magee

Zooming In: None of Your Damned Business - Dorian and Shawn on Nameless Protagonists & Narrators

Friday Reads: When books sparkle

Book Haul

Friday Reads: Bookish problems are happy problems

Lindy and Shawn chat with Douglas Bruton about his novel Blue Postcards

Friday Reads: A Bernini rabbit hole and a bunch of awesome spinsters

Book Haul

Zooming In: Mindy and Shawn on the audacity of literary opinion

Friday Reads: Let us now praise sticky novels

David Carpenter on the Francophone Alberta writer Georges Bugnet and his 1935 novel The Forest

Friday Reads: A genre-bending gift from Ernaux and an inviting look at Gallant

Friday Reads: Rendered speechless

Friday Reads: A time and a place - and a wine cellar of books

Book Haul

Friday Reads: A consummate magpie

Shawn Breathes Books chats with Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo about his fabulously gay novels

Friday Reads: Two books - not that great, not bad enough to bail on

Friday Reads: An overly hasty bail amidst some slow reading

Book Haul

Friday Reads: Out with a disgraced favorite, in with a superb debut

Zooming In: Bob and Shawn on the pressure to ‘keep up’ as readers and bookish content creators

Book Haul

Friday Reads: Back in the bailing saddle

The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2024

Zooming In: Clued in or clueless? - how much do readers want to know about a book before diving in?

Book Haul

Friday Reads: A tome toppled, a couple new books well met

Zooming In: What we talk about when we talk about books - Bernie and Shawn on bookish discourse

Friday Reads: I feel ‘back’