We all need some March 2025 book releases to cozy up with, right? I don’t know about you, but over here, the beginning of the year has felt like a slog. The bad news seems as interminable as the winter, and it’s difficult to be creative or productive under those …
And we’re back with Part 2 of my top 10 books to read in 2024! I won’t give you much preamble, except to say if you haven’t read Part 1, you can check it out here. This list takes us through June, which means I’ll be back with a new …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or it almost is, anyway. If you’ve been here long enough, you know that we’re always counting down to fall. And not just because it’s our favourite season. (Hello, cozy sweaters and warm drinks and Halloween everything!) As September draws near, so …
I know. I know. In our last blog post, I said that my main reading goal for 2023 is to read the books I already own. I promise that is still my goal, but these six books have caught my attention, and I can’t just ignore them. I’m going to …
Can you believe we’re already more than halfway through 2022? Me neither. It doesn’t seem like it should be possible, but here we are. Luckily for us, this means we’re due for another wave of new book releases in the fall. Whatever else the world may be throwing at us …
In Episode 97, Gen and Jette collaborate with one of their favourite Toronto indie publishers, House of Anansi, to give you a preview of one of their upcoming new releases, A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm. This memoir chronicles Chisholm’s time in Paris, scraping out a living in a …
When we recorded our Summer Solstice hangout episode and wrote our Summer Update blog post, I realized I’d read a lot of the books I had on my Top 10 New Book Releases of 2021. Having a Kobo eReader has helped. I’ve been able to borrow ebooks from the library, …
In Episode 70, Gen and Jette team up again with one of their favourite Toronto publishers, House of Anansi Press. This time we’re reading A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie, the sequel to Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which we talked about all the way back in …
In episode 65, Gen and Jette discuss Like Streams to the Ocean, the latest from Jedidiah Jenkins, which covers all the things that make us who we are—ego, family, friends, home, work, and more. We loved Jedidiah’s first book, To Shake the Sleeping Self, and we loved his new one …
In episode 64 we had a wonderful chat with Tiffanie DeBartolo about her latest novel, Sorrow. Tiffanie is an author and record label owner living in Mill Valley, California. We loved talking with her about books, writing, art, and living a creative life. Show Notes: Tiffanie’s film is called Dream …
