Reader’s Paradise: Salon du Livre
Salon du Livre is a book lovers paradise with authors, editors, readings, panels, discussions, and of course, books!
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Re-Joyce! It’s Bloomsday 2021!
It’s Bloomsday 2021! Read up about the events to happen this year and plan out your day!
Holiday Shopping in Montreal : Seasonal Fairs and Christmas Markets 2017
They have been ongoing for several weeks already, but they’ll keep on happening every weekend. Here’s a list of choice places to get your gifts.
Book of the Month Club: Odd Birds by Ian Harding
“In retrospect, I now realize that the look of Mr. Hawkins’s face was one of deliberation: Do I flee from this screaming child or try to somehow eat him?” Memoirs about [read on]
Book of the Month Club: Watership Down by Richard Adams
Imagine this: an animated movie about rabbits. It sounds like a G-rated film, perhaps PG would even be stretching it. Nothing can go wrong, right? Perhaps you weren’t [read on]
Book of the Month Club: The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley
“I’ve tried to write this essay many times. The first time I tried, I would have told you my failure was having judgment poor enough to not be able to see that somebody [read on]
Book of the Month Club: Inspector Colbeck’s Casebook by Edward Marston
“‘That’s Menai,’ observed Madeleine. ‘It was designed by Alexander Allan. The LNWR had almost three hundred engines with an Allan design built at Crewe. Only my [read on]
Book of the Month Club: Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
“A writer who is serious and economical can store away small fragments of ideas and events and conversations, and even facial expressions and mannerisms, and use them [read on]
Book of the Month Club: The Girl Who Couldn’t Read by John Harding
“…on one occasion as I walked through the room I was stopped dead in my tracks when a lone voice rang out the words of ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ clear as [read on]
Blue Met Is an Open Book : Festival Picks
With many free events, the annual Blue Metropolis is a chance to meet authors, listen to intelligent discourse, and get in touch with the local and international lit scenes.
Book of the Month Club: Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
T. A. Wellington reviews “Rain Reign” by Ann M. Martin, a children’s book about a girl and a dog.
The Shop Around the Corner: More French Neighbours & Other Quebec Curios
On another tour of Montreal’s micro bookstores, we stop and have another look at stores owned by some of our French neighbours.
The Shop Around the Corner: Montreal’s Micro Bookstores & Other Quebec Curios
Want to support small businesses? Check out some of these micro bookstore in Montreal!
Holiday Shopping at Montreal Christmas Markets and Seasonal Fairs
They have been ongoing for several weeks already, but they’ll keep on happening every weekend. Here’s a list of choice places to get your gifts.
Book of the Month Club: The Boy Detective by Roger Rosenblatt
T. A. Wellington reviews “The Boy Detective”, a memoir by Roger Rosenblatt looking back on life in New York in the 1940s.
Book of the Month Club: Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
T. A. Wellington reviews Alan Cumming’s “Not My Father’s Son”, an emotional memoir about growing up with an abusive father.
Ready, Set, Read : Salon du Livre in Montreal
Celebrate French literature in all its forms this weekend at the Salon du Livre.