Bite-sized Book Chats: The 73rd Episode

Friday Reads: Friends and Family

Chris, Dorian, James and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s 1917 novel Summer

Shawn of Shawn Breathes Books reviews Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

Friday Reads: An immersive reading week, albeit disrupted

A chat with Western Canadian writer David Carpenter on his essay collection, Writing Home

Friday Reads: A name change amidst a supremely bookish week without a whole lot of reading

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Five readers on the legacy of Alice Munro

An interview with Thomas Grattan about his splendid new queer novel, In Tongues

Book Haul

Friday Reads: ‘Nothing else but a five-star read’

Zooming In: Anna Baillie-Karas and Shawn on readers influencing writers

Another Saskatoon library-book veelog

Book Haul

Zooming In: Brian of Bookish and Shawn the Book Maniac give reading challenges a workout

Friday Reads: Some serial, weird, and tragicomic reads

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls: a graphic memoir of Chinese & Asian-American identity and trauma

Book Haul

Zooming In: The reader, pencil in hand - Sisilia and Shawn on writing in books

Friday Reads: Books that jump off the shelf, and one that got tossed to the ground

A chat with British novelist Douglas Bruton about his writing and some recent reading

Zooming In: Nyambura and Shawn on how much—or even if—they prefer paperbacks

An atmospheric Friday Reads—including a stunning work of autofiction and a bit of a rant

Wee Book Haul

Zooming In: Hannah and Shawn on Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work

Sharon Butala and Shawn the Book Maniac talk books

Friday Reads: ‘Fragility, sound and silence’

Wee Book Haul

A Reckoning: Shawn the Book Maniac downsizes his current reads

Zooming In: Clutter Schmutter: A chat with James on the joys and perils of an overstuffed library